Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) identified coronial investigations as the way to deliver an improved process.Under current legislation, coroners - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) coroners, if they see fit, to investigate stillbirths in certain cases. - Speech Link
2: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) Since then, a range of important safety initiatives have been rolled out, including a perinatal mortality - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) There have been many studies on maternal perinatal mental health problems. - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Parents, professionals and coroners support these changes. - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) As Members would expect, the same shocking disparities occur in the neonatal mortality rate and the infant - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) Stillbirth rates have reduced by 23% and neonatal mortality rates for babies born over 24 weeks’ gestation - Speech Link
Correspondence Dec. 14 2023
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: a factual summary of responses received to the consultation seeking views on proposals to provide coroners
Written Evidence Jan. 24 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: National reporting to MBRRACE UK- perinatal and maternal mortality surveillance reporting requirements
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to enact section 4 of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Work to publish the response to the 2019 consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths was paused during the pandemic, and since then the landscape of maternity investigations has changed significantly.
The findings of the consultation were complex, and it is imperative that they are carefully considered when deciding whether the coronial jurisdiction should be extended to include the investigation of stillbirths.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to publish its response to its consultation entitled Coronial investigations of stillbirths, which closed on 18 June 2019.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We remain fully committed to responding to the coronial investigations of stillbirths consultation and setting out the Government’s position. Earlier this month, we published the factual summary of responses to the consultation.
The Department is working closely with the Ministry of Justice to give full consideration to next steps in this area and how Government will respond. We will update the House in due course.
We are clear that we must get this right, given the emotional impact that losing a baby has on families and others involved.
Mentions:
1: None Also since 2018, the Government have funded the national perinatal mortality review tool, which supports - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) From April 2024, they will now oversee all deaths that have not been put to coroners. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Jan. 29 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: 17Section 1: Maternity care and leadership Recommendation 1 “There is no mechanism to scrutinise perinatal
Special Report Mar. 22 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: death is reported to a coroner, they may decide that a post-mortem and/or an inquest is required.33 Coroners