§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what consultations he has had with the Royal College of Midwives concerning recent medical evidence that electronic foetal monitoring may have a correlation to specific pattern of foetal heart rates.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyWe meet with the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) regularly. Many different areas are discussed, though electronic foetal heart monitoring has not recently been one of them. If the RCM has particular points that it wishes to make about this form of monitoring, I shall be glad to hear from it.