Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist bereavement counselling services for women and their families who have experienced stillbirth or infant death are provided by NHS trusts.

This information is not held centrally.

In Our Commitment to you for end of life care: The Government Response to the Review of Choice in End of Life Care (2016), the Government committed the Department to ‘work with system and voluntary sector partners to identify bereavement care pathway exemplar models to be shared widely across the National Health Service so that for instance, a hospital in the East of England can learn from and implement the good bereavement practice of a service in the West’. This will help to ensure that all parents receive the appropriate level of bereavement care they need.