Infant Mortality: Greater London
(asked on 15th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of (a) stillbirth and (b) neonatal death rates in (i) Feltham and Heston constituency, (ii) the London Borough of Hounslow, (iii) the area covered by the NHS NW London Integrated Care Board and (iv) Greater London.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The published data from the North West London Integrated Care Board is available at the following link:
https://timms.le.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk-perinatal-mortality/
The Government’s maternity safety ambition is to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth and to reduce the preterm birth rate from 8% to 6% by 2025.
The Government has multiple approaches to improving maternity safety inducing clinical improvements like the expanded Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, as well as improving learning through the maternity investigation programme which currently sits in the Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch.