The National Maternity Safety Ambitions – which aim to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries and reduce the rate of preterm births from 8% to 6% – expire in 2025.

The Sands & Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit is focused on saving babies’ lives. As we near the expiry date of the ambitions, we have considered what appropriate future ambitions for reducing perinatal mortality and preterm birth could look like. We propose that the deadline for future ambitions is 2035 to align with the 10 Year Plan for the NHS in England which will be published in 2025.