Question follow-through · 13319
Mental Health Services: Babies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Newborn Behavioural Observations and the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale within NHS maternity, health visiting and perinatal mental health
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Aug 2026 · 60 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Newborn Behavioural Observations and the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale within NHS maternity, health visiting and perinatal mental health
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Aug 2026
Answer published
The Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) and Newborn Behavioural Observations (NBO) are tools used to observe newborn behaviour. The NBAS is a more detailed assessment, while the NBO is more commonly used to support parent-infant relationships by ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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