Question follow-through · 52987
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the capacity of local NHS services to provide safe home births in the context of the closure of Yeovil Hospital’s maternity unit.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the capacity of local NHS services to provide safe home births in the context of the closure of Yeovil Hospital’s maternity unit.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government is aware of the temporary changes to services at Yeovil District Hospital that have been made in response to a number of factors, including a recent Care Quality Commission inspection and not being able to currently meet the staffing levels...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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