Marketing On Maternity Wards
EDM number 319 in 2013-14, proposed by John Robertson on 01/07/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Companies, Health services and Service industries.
That this House notes with concern the interruption of new mothers in NHS maternity wards by sales representatives; expresses concern that these representatives pass on advertising material during this time, that, more worringly, they extract data from these new mothers in order to sell it on to third parties and that sales representatives' motivation is unclear, with many new mothers believing they are giving their details to an official from the NHS; further notes that this confusion is compounded by the fact that HM Revenue and Customs pays Bounty
This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs.
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