Maternity Services: Coronavirus

(asked on 7th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department is collecting to monitor the effectiveness of NHS England guidance, Supporting pregnant women using maternity services during the coronavirus pandemic’, updated in April 2021; and what steps he is taking to ensure that parents have full access to their babies on neonatal units.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 16th July 2021

The Department is not collecting data to monitor the effectiveness of NHS England’s guidance. However, NHS England and NHS Improvement have worked closely with trusts to adopt the actions set out in their updated guidance on and to remove barriers which prevent trusts being able to facilitate full parental presence in neonatal units. NHS England and NHS Improvement are assured that 100% of trusts report that they are actively using the guidance to ensure they are able to facilitate full parental access to their babies on neonatal units.

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