Maternity Services: Midlands

Daniel Kawczynski
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans there are for increasing the number of neonatal nurses at (a) Stoke, (b) Wolverhampton and (c) Shrewsbury hospitals over the next two years.

Dawn Primarolo
Decisions about the size and locations of neonatal networks, including the number of hospitals and the number of neonatal nurses are for local decision and should reflect local need and geography.