Select Committee · Health and Social Care Committee

Expert Panel: evaluation of the Government’s commitments in the area of maternity services in England

Status: Closed Opened: 9 Apr 2021 Closed: 20 Oct 2021

Inquiry scope

The Health & Social Care Committee has established and commissioned a politically impartial panel of experts to conduct an evaluation – independently of the Committee – of the Government’s commitments in different areas of healthcare policy. The Expert Panel will produce a report after each evaluation which will sent to the Committee to review. The final report will include a CQC-style rating of the progress the Government has made against achieving its own commitments. The Expert Panel will first evaluate the progress the Government has made against its own commitments in the area of maternity services in England. The Expert Panel is chaired by Professor Dame Jane Dacre, and is comprised or core (i.e. permanent) members and subject specialists. Core members of the Expert Panel are: Sir Robert Francis QC; Dr Charlotte Augst; Meerat Kaur; Professor John Appleby; Anita Charlesworth; and Professor Stephen Peckham. Maternity specialist members of the Expert Panel are: Professor Soo Downe, Professor of Midwifery Studies at University of Central Lancashire; Professor Alexander Heazell, Director of Tommy’s Stillbirth Research Centre, University of Manchester; Sarah Noble, Associate Director of Midwifery at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; and Professor Dame Lesley Regan, Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary’s Hospital, London. An overview of the Expert Panel’s work is available here: https://houseofcommons.shorthandstories.com/health-and-social-care-committee-expert-panel/ Further information on the Expert Panel is set out in the Health & Social Care Committee Special Report: Process for independent evaluation of progress on Government commitments (5 August 2020).

Written evidence

30 submissions recorded

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Reference	Date	Submitter
EPE0028 Full text not held	28 Jun 2021	Transcript of Expert Panel rountable with clinicians on 21 May 2021
EPE0029 Full text not held	28 Jun 2021	Transcript of Expert panel roundtable with NHSEI on 15 June 2021
EPE0030 Full text not held	28 Jun 2021	Transcript of Expert Panel roundtable with clinicians on 26 May 2021
EPE0031 Full text not held	28 Jun 2021	Transcript of Expert Panel focus group with women from East African backgrounds dated 19 May 2021
EPE0026 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Department of Health and Social Care
EPE0025 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Donna Ockenden
EPE0024 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Better Breastfeeding
EPE0023 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Caesarean Births
EPE0022 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM)
EPE0021 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Baby Lifeline
EPE0020 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Bliss
EPE0019 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Birthrights
EPE0018 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	National Maternity Voices
EPE0017 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Wellbeing of Women
EPE0016 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	AIMS - Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services
EPE0015 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Andrea Sutcliffe, Nursing and Midwifery Council
EPE0014 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	NCT (National Childbirth Trust)
EPE0013 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Birth Trauma Association
EPE0012 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Sands
EPE0011 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Care Quality Commission (CQC)
EPE0010 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
EPE0009 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Campaign for Safer Births
EPE0008 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association
EPE0007 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	NHS Providers
EPE0006 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society
EPE0005 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Dr Bill Kirkup
EPE0004 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	The Royal College of Pathologists
EPE0003 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	The Royal College of Pathologists
EPE0002 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Helen Vernon, NHS Resolution
EPE0001 Full text not held	17 Jun 2021	Baroness Cumberlege

Correspondence

10 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
29 Jun 2021	To committee	Letter from the Minister of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health on baby loss prevention and data reporting
21 Jun 2021	To committee	Letter from Nadine Dorries MP on Government commitments in the area of maternity services in England dated 25 May 2021
21 Jun 2021	From committee	Letter to Nadine Dorries MP on Government commitments in the area of maternity services in England dated 3 June 2021
21 Jun 2021	From committee	Letter to the Secretary of Sate for Health and Social Care on Government commitments in the area of maternity services in England dated 17 May 2021
21 Jun 2021	To committee	Annex A to letter from Nadine Dorries MP dated 7 June 2021
21 Jun 2021	To committee	Letter from Nadine Dorries MP on Government commitments in the area of maternity services in England dated 7 June 2021
21 Jun 2021	To committee	Letter from Nadine Dorries MP on Government commitments in the area of maternity services in England dated 18 June 2021
9 Apr 2021	From committee	Letter to the Secretary of State on Goverment committments in the area of maternity services dated 16 March 2021
9 Apr 2021	To committee	Letter from the Secretary of State on the work of the Expert Panel dated 14 December 2020
9 Apr 2021	From committee	Letter to the Secretary of State on the work of the Expert Panel dated 24 November 2020