Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on ensuring that every NHS trust with a maternity service takes part in the National Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative; and if he will make a statement.
The Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative is a three-year programme. NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that every trust in England with a maternity unit has been or is currently taking part in the programme.