Health: Multiple Pregnancy Debate

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Baroness Walmsley

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Health: Multiple Pregnancy

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Monday 13th July 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Prior of Brampton Portrait Lord Prior of Brampton
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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 Portrait Baroness Walmsley (LD)
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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 Portrait Lord Prior of Brampton
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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.

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