Still-Birth Certificates

EDM number 691 in 2010-12, proposed by Penny Mordaunt on 07/09/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Health services and Registration of births, deaths and marriages.

That this House notes with approval that it has been possible for a full name to be recorded on a still-birth certificate since 1995; further notes that still births before 24 weeks gestation do not have to be recorded, but that an informal certificate can be issued to the bereaved parents; and calls on hospitals to recognise the loss suffered by such parents by making them aware of these certificates as a matter of policy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.