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<p>The Department is committed to improving maternity outcomes and experience of care
for women and babies.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2015, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary
of State announced a national ambition to halve the rates of stillbirths, neonatal
and maternal deaths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 2030.
Action includes tackling issues of culture, leadership and learning, to improve safety
in maternity units as well as the outcomes and experience of care for mothers and
babies.</p><p> </p><p>The Our Chance campaign promotes advice about healthy pregnancy,
highlighting the crucial risk factors during pregnancy and the postnatal period which
may lead to adverse outcomes for mother and baby. In addition, the Avoiding Term Admission
in Neonatal Units programme seeks to prevent the separation of mother and baby (except
in cases with a compelling medical reason) and avoid admissions of full-term babies
to neonatal units.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has invested £365 million from 2015/16
to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation
programme to ensure that by 2020/21 at least 30,000 more women each year are able
to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period.</p>
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