Infant Mortality

(asked on 19th October 2018) - 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 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report entitled Child health in 2030 in England: comparisons with other wealthy countries, published in October 2018, what plans his Department has to reduce the infant mortality rate in England as a result of the findings of that report.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 24th October 2018

Improving children’s mental and physical health is a top priority for this Government and will be pivotal in our long-term plan for the National Health Service, which we are backing with additional funding of an extra £20.5 billion a year by 2023/24. This follows the existing National Maternity Safety Ambition to halve the 2010 rates of neonatal deaths (as well as stillbirths, maternal deaths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth) by 2025, and to achieve a 20% reduction in these rates by 2020. Achieving this ambition would place the United Kingdom amongst other high-income countries with the lowest stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates.

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