The Health Secretary has also announced other measures designed to improve the safety of maternity care in the NHS. These include: a 250,000 fund to pilot new ideas for improving maternity care maternity ratings for every clinical commissioning group across the NHS a national quality improvement programme involving all maternity units The Health Secretary has set a target of halving stillbirths and neonatal deaths by 2030. At present, for every 1,000 births in England, more than seven babies are either born dead or die soon afterwards, giving it one of the worst records of any developed c