Health: Midwives

Baroness Wall of New Barnet Excerpts

Wednesday 5th March 2014 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, any bridging loan requires to be repaid, and that is one of the issues that we are looking at.

[Baroness Wall of New Barnet (Lab)]

My Lords, following on from the question from the noble Earl on the Cross Benches, I am sure that the Minister is aware that most trusts—this is certainly the case in the maternity unit at Barnet hospital—now have a community midwife at the birth, and that midwife follows the mother home and stays there for as long as the mother needs support. Therefore, there is one-to-one care from a midwife, not necessarily during the delivery but certainly in the care that the mother receives when she goes home.