questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure maternity services are able to respond to changes in demand and clinical practice, including (a) an increase in the average age of mothers at childbirth and (b) the rising proportion of births by caesarean section.
answerText: The Government and NHS England remain committed to ensuring safe, personalised, and evidence-based maternity care, grounded in informed choice. We will translate Baroness Amos’s National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation recommendations and Donna Ocken...
heading: Maternity Services: Standards