Saturday 12 July 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8720
Date Request Received: 19/06/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 25/06/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Stillborn Babies / Medical Research
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please provide the following information: *The number of stillborn babies made available by the hospitals and/or the Trust for the purposes of medical research between 1950 and 1990 For clarity, "stillborn" is to include any infant who died in the first 24 hours after birth, and "organisations" refers to any company (eg: Sellafield) which requested foetal tissue or the bodies of babies for medical testing | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust do not keep records longer than 25 years in maternity or Pathology so this would not be available to the service now | |
| Question Number 2: *Details of the organisations provided with stillborn babies for the purposes of medical research between 1950 and 1990 | |
| Answer To Question 2: The Trust do not keep records longer than 25 years in maternity or Pathology so this would not be available to the service now | |
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