Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for the Health Service Safety Investigations Body to take forward the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Each Baby Counts programme.

The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations Programme (MNSI) now carries out the maternity work previously carried out by Health Service Safety Investigations Body Maternity Investigations Programme.

Similar to the purpose of the Each Baby Counts programme, the MNSI Programme is intended to identify key trends and provide system-wide learning. The programme carries out investigates into specific cases of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths and brain injuries, with its criteria originally based on the categories of “eligible babies” as described in the Each Baby Counts Report.

The Department therefore has no plans for the Health Service Safety Investigations Body to take forward the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Each Baby Counts programme.