Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has of the progress being made by the Twins Trust’s Quality Improvement Programme in reducing the number of (a) perinatal deaths and (b) neonatal admissions by 2025; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
The Department provided grant funding for the Twins Trust Maternity Engagement Project which provided evidence that implementing National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on managing twin and multiple pregnancies can significantly reduce twin stillbirths, neonatal deaths and neonatal admissions. The two year evaluation demonstrated an 18% reduction in neonatal deaths, a 7% reduction in stillbirths, a 23% reduction in neonatal admissions, and a 6% reduction in emergency caesarean sections.
Based on the evidence generated through the Engagement Project, the Saving Babies’ Lives care bundle (version two) strongly encourages providers and commissioners to implement NICE guidance and stipulates best practice for multiple pregnancies.
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
What plans he has to introduce extended maternity leave for mothers of premature babies.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Government is committed to supporting working parents.
We recognise the particular challenges faced by parents of over 100,000 babies admitted into neonatal care each year, many of whom are born prematurely.
Our Manifesto committed to give parents of babies in neonatal care a new entitlement to paid leave from work.
Following our consultation on this last year, we are analysing the responses as a priority and will set out our plans soon.
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
What steps he is taking to improve the NHS capital estate.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
In September 2019, my Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care unveiled the Health Infrastructure Plan: a long-term startegic investment programme in the future of our National Health Service.
This included the biggest hospital building programme in a generation: £2.8 billion funding for 40 new hospitals over the next ten years, with six in the first wave (HIP 1), on top of the 20 hospital upgrades announced by the Prime Minister in August 2019.