Postnatal Care

(asked on 20th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that women receive the same level of postnatal support during the covid-19 outbreak as they received before.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 28th April 2020

The National Health Service is making arrangements to ensure that women are supported and cared for safely through pregnancy, birth and the period afterwards during this pandemic when there will be extra pressures on healthcare services.

Community health services should continue to provide support during the current pandemic with greater use of digital and remote technologies prioritising higher needs families. Antenatal contact and new baby visits should continue, with other help assessed and stratified for vulnerable or clinical need.

Mental health providers are also looking at how they can maximise the use of digital and virtual channels to keep delivering support to existing and new service users.

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