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New maternity plans announced to improve safety
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced new measures to improve the safety, quality and continuity of maternity care.
The measures aim to halve stillbirths, maternal and infant deaths and serious brain injuries in new-born babies by 2025, led by a major redesign of neonatal services. This will include an expansion of staff, with more neonatal nurses and specialists, as well as new roles for allied health professionals.
Hancock's announcement also included measures to digitise the paper child record, known as the 'red book', and a pilot to digitise maternity records for 100,000 women by the end of 2019. This will help women make more informed choices and direct their care in a more convenient way.
Hancock said: "Having a baby is one of the best moments of our lives, so I want our NHS to be the best place in the world to give birth. Today we will take steps to ensure every expectant mother is supported – from pregnancy, to birth, to those critical first months of parenthood – with a comprehensive package of personalised, high-quality support. Every parent will remember the red book that comes from the NHS with each baby. In this digital age we need to keep pace with the times. So, from birth, each child will now be able to start life using the best of modern technology – in a way that’s easier for parents and fit for the future.
"Great care also means safe care, but sadly too many women are still suffering the unimaginable tragedy of losing a child. We are committed to saving 4,000 lives by 2025 by halving stillbirths, maternal and infant deaths and serious brain injuries in new-borns. These new measures to improve maternity care, funded by taxpayers as part of the NHS long-term plan, will mean hundreds of thousands of new families get the very best care."
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