Maternity Services: Lincolnshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve maternity services in Lincolnshire.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Department is supporting the National Health Service to deliver the three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services across England, to make care safer, more personalised, and more equitable for women and babies.
In Lincolnshire, there have been recent improvements to perinatal pelvic health services, as well as implementation of the updated Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, a package of interventions to reduce stillbirths, neonatal brain injury, neonatal deaths, and preterm birth.
The Midlands Heatmap Data, a tool for assessing maternity and neonatal care safety and quality, has shown a significant improvement, with Lincolnshire being the best performing in the region in August 2024.
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