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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Physiotherapy: Mothers (2 November 2022)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits of offering new mothers pelvic floor physiotherapy.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

Answer

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidance recognises that physiotherapy is important for the prevention and treatment of pelvic floor problems relating to pregnancy and birth. The NHS Long Term Plan committed to ensure that women have access to multidisciplinary pelvic health clinics and pathways in England.

NHS England is deploying perinatal pelvic health services to improve the prevention, identification and access to physiotherapy for pelvic health issues antenatally and postnatally. Two-thirds of local maternity and neonatal systems are expected to establish these services by the end of March 2023, with full deployment in England expected by March 2024.


Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
15 November 2022

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