The Scottish Government has also provided funding to Group B Strep Support (GBSS) through our Improving Health and Wellbeing grant scheme in 2023-24 and 2024-25 to support the development of an online learning module on GBS for health professionals and GBSS’s public awareness and education campaign.More broadly, the Scottish Government has commissioned Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) to develop a set of maternity standards for Scotland, designed to drive improvements in care at a local level, which are expected to publish in Spring 2026.