Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the full evidence review conducted as part of the Neonatal Critical Care Review will be published.

The findings of the review will be presented in the form of recommendations. These recommendations will go to NHS England’s Women and Children’s Programme of Care Board, the Maternity Workstream 1 Group and the Maternity Programme Board and then will be presented for inclusion in local maternity planning processes in November 2018.

A review report will not be published but the full evidence review was completed in October 2017 and initial recommendations linked to specific themes were presented to Local Maternity Planning Systems in August 2017. The remaining recommendations will be published and will be presented to all Local Maternity Transformation Planning Groups.