AQW 635/16-21

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 06/06/2016
Answered On Date: 14/06/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are any plans to include a miscarriage support strategy as part of maternity services from 2016.

Answer:

My Department’s guidance entitled ‘Regional Bereavement Guidance on evidence-based, holistic care of parents and their families after the experience of miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death’ published in November 2014, updated December 2015, is the support strategy offered to women and their families throughout the time of their loss.

The Guidance is used in conjunction with specific care pathways for pregnancy loss at all gestations and is implemented by all HSC Trusts.