Question follow-through · 8277
Infant Mortality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve care for families after (a) pregnancy loss and (b) the death of a baby.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve care for families after (a) pregnancy loss and (b) the death of a baby.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to delivering compassionate care for women, and supporting parents who have experienced any type of baby loss. Many trusts have specialist bereavement midwives, who are trained to care for and support parents and families who h...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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