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Select Committee
Spoons Charity
 PRT0021 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: In 2016 Spoons became a registered charity and developed a range of services to support families

Written Question
Infant Mortality and Miscarriage: Disadvantaged
Monday 4th March 2024

Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that a commitment to reducing inequalities in (a) pregnancy loss and (b) baby deaths is included in the next Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Government is committed to tackling and reducing disparities in health outcomes, and works closely with NHS England to improve equity for mothers and babies, and race equality for staff. A central ambition of the National Health Services’ three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services is to reduce inequalities in access, experience, and outcomes for women and babies. This plan is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/three-year-delivery-plan-for-maternity-and-neonatal-services/

There are no current plans to revise the three-year plan, and NHS England are focused on delivering the existing commitments, including those relating to inequalities in still birth and neonatal death.

Select Committee
NeoLeaP (Neonatal Leads for Psychological Practice in England)
 PRT0052 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: are a group of Consultant Clinical Psychologists leading on psychological provision for neonatal services

Select Committee
Neonatal Nurses Association
 PRT0074 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: This was recognised in the NHS Long Term Plan and funding was made available to all neonatal services

Deposited Papers

Nov. 10 2008

Source Page: National service framework for children, young people and maternity services: maternity services. 52 p.
Document: DEP2008-2658.pdf (PDF)

Found: National service framework for children, young people and maternity services: maternity services. 52

Select Committee
Rachel Stamp, Joanne Adams, Charlotte Xanthadis, Emma Foulerton, Helen Cater, Maria Furtado, Anna Lukens, Denise Hart, Helen Robinson, and Phillipa Ranson
 PRT0036 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: Review (NCCR) recommendations, there has been a commitment from NHS England to embed the Allied Health

Select Committee
AIMS (the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services)
 PRT0038 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: PRT0038 - Preterm Birth AIMS (the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services) Written Evidence

Select Committee
University of Leicester, and University of Oxford

Oral Evidence Mar. 11 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: outweighs the proportion of the costs borne by healthcare services.

Select Committee
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
 PRT0072 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: Implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle 10.NHS England’s Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle

Written Question
Maternity Services
Tuesday 7th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in implementing the three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services, published on 30 March 2023.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England is making good progress in delivering its Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services, a copy of which is attached. The plan is backed by £186 million of funding per year from April 2024, which sets out how maternity and neonatal care will be made safer, more personalised, and more equitable for women, babies, and families.

For example, many local maternity and neonatal systems have published Equity and Equality Action Plans to tackle disparities in outcomes and experiences of maternity care at a local level. NHS England has published new guidance for general practitioners on the 6-8 week postnatal check, all parts of England have begun rollout of perinatal pelvic health services and 39 maternal mental health services have been established.

All trusts are implementing the third version of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle which provides maternity units with detailed guidance to reduce stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

NHS England’s Digital Maternity Fund has awarded 128 funding bids to support the digitisation of maternity services across England and NHS England have established a new data taskforce to better detect and act sooner on safety issues.

Finally, to increase neonatal cot capacity, £45 million of capital was allocated across several providers to deliver an overall increase of more than 50 cots.