SIR NICHOLAS SOAMES’S QUESTION ON GROUP B STREP INFECTION

14th November 2017

Health Questions

Maternity Services

Tuesday, 14th November, 2017

House of Commons

 

Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con)

Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating my constituents in Group B Strep Support, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, on the September update to the green-top clinical guidelines on group B strep infection, which I am sure he will agree are a significant step forward in preventing that wicked and wholly unnecessary neonatal infection?

The Secretary of State for Health (Mr Jeremy Hunt)

I am happy to offer my congratulations, because that is an incredibly important area. We have done really well on clostridium difficile and MRSA infections, but the rates of other infections such as group B strep and E. coli are higher than they need to be. In fact, I am speaking at a conference on infection prevention and control this afternoon.

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