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<p>No specific assessment on the comprehensiveness of data for maternity support workers
has been made.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services
workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and
integrated care. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the HR system
for National Health Services (NHS) providers. Responsibility for data accuracy lies
with organisations providing the data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The data held and published
are an accurate summary of the validated data extracted from the NHS HR and Payroll
system. Data quality is monitored by NHS Digital, NHS Business Services Authority
and NHS trusts themselves. NHS Digital seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect
of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with organisations
providing the data.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England have provided funding to maternity services
to support the recruitment of Maternity Support Workers (MSW) and to offer enhanced
education support to align them with the Health Education England MSW competency,
education, and career development framework.</p><p> </p><p>To increase the maternity
workforce, from 2022, an additional £127 million is being invested by NHS England
which will go towards the maternity NHS workforce and improving neonatal care. This
is on top of the £95 million invested in 2021, to fund the establishment of posts
for 1,200 more midwives and 100 more consultant obstetricians.</p>
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