Maternity Services: Finance
(asked on 9th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Final report of the Ockenden review, published on 30 March 2022, when the Government plans to increase maternity funding by the £200 to 350 million per annum recommended by that report.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 15th March 2023
NHS England invested £127 million into the maternity system in 2022 which will go towards the National Health Service maternity workforce and improving neonatal care. We will keep further funding under review.