Maternity Services
(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the quality of service in maternity units in England.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 8th September 2023
Over the last year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been carrying out a national programme of focused maternity inspections. The programme involves inspecting of all hospital maternity services CQC has not inspected and rated since April 2021. The programme is in progress, and as of August 2023, CQC has completed 68% of its proposed inspections and hopes to complete all inspections by the end of the year.