WRITTEN STATEMENTS OF OPINION TABLED ON 16/07/2008

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OPIN-2008- 0060 - Group B Streptococcal Infection

Raised By:

Janet Ryder

Subscribers:

Bethan Jenkins 17/07/2008

Gareth Jones 17/07/2008

Dai Lloyd 17/07/2008

Leanne Wood 17/07/2008

Helen Mary Jones 17/07/2008

Chris Franks 17/07/2008

Nerys Evans 17/07/2008

Mohammad Asghar 17/07/2008

Group B Streptococcal Infection

This Assembly recognises that Group B Streptococcal Infection is the UK's most common cause of life-threatening infection in newborn babies, causing septicaemia, pneumonia and meningitis in an estimated 700 babies per year and calls on the Government to introduce reliable tests for diagnosing Group B Streptococcal Infection as available in other European countries, the US and Australasia, for pregnant women in Wales, so that more pregnant women whose babies are at raised risk from Group B Streptococcal Infection can be identified and more of these devastating infections can be prevented.