Midwives
(asked on 29th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to increase the number of midwives working in the NHS over the next five years.
This question was answered on 18th April 2018
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently announced that the Department is planning an increase in National Health Service midwives and maternity support staff with 650 new training places for midwives in 2019 – a 25% increase. We will continue to work with the universities and the NHS to create even more training places in subsequent years to increase the midwifery workforce.