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No specific assessment has been made. The Government’s national maternity safety ambition
aims to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain
injuries in babies occurring during or soon after birth, by 2025. Since 2010, the
rate of stillbirths has reduced by 19.3%, the rate of neonatal mortality for babies
born over 24 weeks gestational age of viability has reduced by 36% and maternal mortality
has reduced by 17%. We have introduced targeted interventions to accelerate progress,
such as the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle and the Brain Injury Reduction Programme.
NHS England has also invested £127 million in National Health Service maternity workforce
and improving neonatal care. This is in addition to the £95 million investment made
in 2021 to fund the establishment of a further 1,200 midwifery and 100 consultant
obstetrician posts. NHS England is offering funding and support to trusts to recruit
an additional 300 to 500 overseas midwives in the next 12 months.
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