Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Conservative), on Wednesday, 14 May 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 228 members in total.

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GROUP B STREPTOCOCCUS

That this House notes that an estimated 3,500 mothers in the UK in the last five years have suffered the pain and trauma of their baby developing life-threatening Group B Streptococcal (GBS) infections, including septicaemia, pneumonia and meningitis; further notes that approximately 500 of these sick babies have died, and a further 200 of the survivors have been left with consequences including brain damage; recognises that GBS infections and deaths can be drastically reduced by adopting screening programmes for all pregnant women and taking precautionary action, usually giving intravenous anti-biotics during labour to women found to carry GBS and those with recognised risk factors; understands that screening programmes and other measures have been adopted and found to work in other European countries and the US; and calls on the Government to investigate instigating similar schemes in the UK as a matter of urgency.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1211 

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Pregnancy Screening Bacterial diseases Streptococcus

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk