Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) services and empower women with information on the improvements that they should expect and deserve during pregnancy - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) introduced using powers inserted into the Employment Rights Act 1996 by the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) overview and explanation of this statutory instrument, which builds on the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) We will work closely with the Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Advisory Board on the guidance and - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Cumberlege (Con - Life peer) or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy in the three years between 2020 and 2022. - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) the unborn baby, or who developed complications that may have threatened their pregnancy and the life - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) At least one in five women experiences a mental health problem during pregnancy and after birth, and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (XB - Life peer) Most expectant mothers and their significant others receive high-quality care during pregnancy and are - Speech Link
Fund routine CMV virus checks at 8 weeks pregnant
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If you contract Cytomegalovirus (CMV) virus in pregnancy, you might pass it on to your baby, and this can in some cases have catastrophic impacts. This can lead to some parents making the very difficult decision of ending their baby's life at 20+ weeks of pregnancy, and giving birth to a stillborn.
Found: they can consider the risks at this stage and make decisions, rather than finding out later in the pregnancy
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The Carer’s Leave Act 2023 and the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 received - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) For the purposes of the draft maternity leave regulations, pregnancy is defined as the period from when - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Reportedly, 70% of employers held the belief that women should declare a pregnancy during the recruitment - Speech Link
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 1067 on Dental Services: Pregnancy, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of free dental treatment for pregnant women.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
To ensure everyone has access to dentistry when needed, there are a range of exemptions to National Health Service dental patient charges for those who need the most financial support. Support is also available through the NHS Low Income Scheme for those patients who are not eligible for exemption or full remission. We have also frozen dental patient charges between December 2020 and April 2023. Free treatment is available to all pregnant women.
Patients do not routinely join NHS dental waiting lists and are only registered with a dental practice for a course of treatment. NHS dental practice profiles at NHS.UK show whether practices across England are currently accepting new patients. This information is available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-dentist
NHS Dental Statistics for England, published by NHS Digital, brings together information on NHS dental activity in England, including information about courses of treatment delivered. 214,257 courses of treatment were delivered to expectant mothers in 2022/23, which is 0.7% of the total of 32.5 million courses of treatment that were delivered in the year. 47.5% of all courses of NHS dental treatment were delivered to non-paying adults and children in the same period.
The NHS in England invests £3 billion on dentistry every year. We are working on our Dentistry Recovery Plan which will address how we continue to improve access for all NHS dental patients across England, including pregnant women.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) unfavourable treatment after they return from maternity leave, where that treatment is in connection with a pregnancy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) As the Minister said, they are massively important to women, protecting them through and after pregnancy - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Would the Minister agree that smoking in pregnancy has enormously damaging effects, leading to much poorer - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) totally agree with the noble Baroness on the importance of stopping smoking—always, but especially during pregnancy - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 will provide greater protection - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 will provide greater protection - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None We also see women who want to end a pregnancy that might not be a pregnancy that is continuing, and the - Speech Link