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<p>The Department is committed to expanding midwifery training places by 3,650 over
a four year period. Increases of 626 in 2019/20 and 1,140 in 2020/21 were achieved,
and as of January 2023, the student data collection is showing an increase of 1271
in 2021/22. An additional £127 million was also invested in 2022 to go into the maternity
system to help increase the National Health Service maternity workforce and improve
neonatal care.</p><p>The Government funded the Stillbirths and Neonatal Death charity
to work with other baby loss charities and Royal Colleges to produce and support the
roll-out of a National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP). The pathway covers a range
of circumstances of a baby loss including miscarriage, stillbirth, termination of
pregnancy for medical reasons, neonatal death and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. As
of 1 January 2023, 108 NHS England trusts (84%) have committed to adopting the nine
NBCP standards.</p>
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