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Hereditary Diseases: Midwives and Nurses

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 23897, tabled on 14 January 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 22100 on Genetics: Diseases, how many additional (a) midwives and (b) close relative neonatal nurses were provided for the Genetic Risk Equity project; and what proportion of funding that represented.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

28 February 2025

There were an additional 3.8 working time equivalent (WTE) midwives and 1 WTE neonatal nurse in post in 2024/25. Staff costs represented 22% of project costs, or 59% if full recruitment to funded posts was secured.

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