Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30836

Miscarriage: Databases

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 26 February 2025

Question

Alice Macdonald

Labour (Co-op)Norwich North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Research on research into the feasibility of pre-12-week pregnancy loss data collection.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).While miscarriage hospital stay data is collected, the majority of baby losses occur outside of healthcare settings, and it is rightly the choice of the...

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