Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81944

Perinatal Mortality

Tabled: 14 October 2025

Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Anneliese Dodds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS England's guidance entitled Saving babies’ lives version three: a care bundle for reducing perinatal mortality, updated on 24 April 2025, is implemented a

Answer

Karin Smyth

All trusts are implementing version three of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle to reduce the rates of stillbirth, preterm birth, and to optimise neonatal care. As of May 2025, 116 out of 120 trusts were fully compliant, which is a 10% increase since Apr...

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