Fifteen babies a day in UK are stillborn or die within month of birth

Report flags up urgent need for research into stark variations across country as charity calls government funding ‘woefully inadequate’

Fifteen babies are dying every day in the UK from stillbirth, during labour or within four weeks of being born, according to a new report.

The health secretary Jeremy Hunt has pledged to halve the rate of such deaths by 2030, but the leading stillbirth charity, Sands, says the amount of funding committed is “woefully inadequate” - a charge the government rejects.

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