Question follow-through · 41533

Maternity Services: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to ensure that maternity hospitals are adequately staffed to ensure high quality care for pregnant women in Devon.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 26 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 28 Mar 2025
Answer: 3 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to ensure that maternity hospitals are adequately staffed to ensure high quality care for pregnant women in Devon.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling the retention and recruitment challenges that face the National Health Service. Bringing in the staff we need will take time, but this is an absolute priority for the Government.NHS England is leading a range of ini...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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