Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the ratio of midwives to patients has been in the maternity unit of Northampton General Hospital in each year since 2010.
Information on ratio of midwives to patients is not collected centrally.
Information on the number of midwives (full-time equivalent) at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust in each year since 2010 is included in the attached table.
There has been an increase of 2,231 (11.1%) full-time equivalent qualified midwives since May 2010.