The National Women & Infants Health Programme (NWIHP) has produced a revised implementation plan for the National Maternity Strategy covering the remaining period of the Strategy’s lifetime from 2021-2026, in line with recommendations made by HIQA in its 2020 Overview Report of its monitoring programme against the National Standards for Safer Better Maternity Services.
This plan has been finalised and submitted to the Department for review. As the publication of the plan is a matter for the NWIHP, I have asked the Health Services Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.