Multiple Births

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered on 20th April 2021.

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Photo of Sharon Hodgson Sharon Hodgson Shadow Minister (Defence)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 157977 on Antenatal Care, what assurances he is providing to families who give birth to multiples in units in England and Wales that they will be seen by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, midwives and sonographers who are experts in twin pregnancies.

Photo of Nadine Dorries Nadine Dorries Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Women who are pregnant with more than one baby should expect to be seen by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, midwives and sonographers who are experts in twin pregnancies. The fetal medicine clinics which are being established will standardise this type of care and make it available in every part of England.

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