Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 15960

Childbirth and Infant Mortality

Tabled: 25 November 2024
Answered: 2 December 2024

Question

Abtisam Mohamed

LabourSheffield Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set clear and measurable targets to help tackle socio-economic and ethnic disparities in the rates of (a) neonatal death, (b) brain injury and (c) pre-term birth.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to ensuring that all women and babies received safe, personalised, equitable, and compassionate care. I am urgently considering the immediate action needed across maternity and neonatal services to improve outcomes and address ...

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