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Medical Records: Babies

Asked by Alistair StrathernLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 23 April 2025UIN 45152

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS services (a) engage with new fathers and (b) record their details alongside the mothers in their baby's health records.

Answered by Karin Smyth

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Livingston on 31 March 2025 to Question 38280.

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