Question follow-through · 52381
Stepping Hill Hospital: Midwives
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of midwives in Stepping Hill hospital.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of midwives in Stepping Hill hospital.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
Decisions about the recruitment of midwifery staff are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level to ensure they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to delive...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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