Health: Multiple Pregnancy Debate
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Baroness Walmsley
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Health: Multiple Pregnancy
Baroness Walmsley Excerpts(8 years, 10 months ago)
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Lord Prior of Brampton
The Government may have figures on this. I do not have figures here today, but I shall certainly endeavour to find them as soon as I can and perhaps follow it up with the noble Lord in a meeting outside this House.
Baroness Walmsley (LD)
My Lords, given that mothers expecting multiple births need the expert care of qualified midwives and yet we have quite a shortage, and given that the Government are considering giving golden hellos to GPs, what about midwives?
Lord Prior of Brampton
My Lords, we are not considering golden hellos to midwives. There are, I think, some 6,400 extra midwives in training at the moment and some 2,100 more midwives today than there were in 2010.