Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the long-term impact of traumatic birth experiences on Black and Black mixed women.

No specific assessment has been made. However, in order to reduce the risk of traumatic birth experiences for women, there are projects underway to increase the personalisation of maternity care and provide standardised information to support informed decision making. In 2021, NHS England published ‘A good practice guide to support implementation of trauma-informed care in the perinatal period’ which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BBS-TIC-V8.pdf