Written answers
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Department of Health
National Maternity Strategy
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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1194. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Maternity Strategy will be fully implemented [20101/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Maternity Strategy - Creating a Better Future Together 2016 - 2026 was published in January 2016 and represents the blueprint for the development of a new maternity service.
Within the HSE, the National Women & Infants Health Programme leads the management, organisation and delivery of maternity, gynaecology and neonatal services, and drives implementation of the Strategy. The Programme published a Strategy Implementation Plan in 2017 and work is progressing on the individual elements of that plan. I am advised however, that there has been some slippage in terms of the timelines and consequently the Programme is currently revisiting the original Plan, with a view to providing up-to-date timelines for the implementation of the Strategy's recommendations.
As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
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