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<p>An agreement on whether additional items will be included in the 2020/21 general
practitioner (GP) contract – such as the inclusion of a specific universal maternal
six-week postnatal check – will be made following negotiations between NHS England
and the GP profession later this year. No decisions have been made on which issues
are to be included in the negotiating remit.</p><p>Post-natal care can be delivered
by a number of different providers, including midwives, health visitors and GPs. Currently,
commissioners and providers should ensure that women are offered a review of their
physical, emotional and social wellbeing by a healthcare professional at the end of
the postnatal period (between 6-8 weeks). National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
guidelines on postnatal care stipulate that a documented, individualised postnatal
care plan should be developed with the woman ideally in the antenatal period or as
soon as possible after birth.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan highlights that we will
continue to work with midwives, mothers and their families to implement continuity
of carer so that, by March 2021, most women receive continuity of person caring for
them during pregnancy, birth and postnatally.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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