Question follow-through · 33324
Midwives: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that newly qualified midwives in Dorset can secure employment at local NHS trusts upon completing their training.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that newly qualified midwives in Dorset can secure employment at local NHS trusts upon completing their training.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
Decisions about the employment of newly qualified midwives is a matter for individual National Health Service trusts, including in Dorset. Trusts manage their recruitment at a local level to ensure they have the right number of staff in place, with the ri...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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