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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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UK paying for East European 'migrant baby boom'
'The National Health Service is spending £350m a year to provide maternity services for foreign-born mothers, £200m more than a decade ago, the BBC has found.
Immigration has raised the birth rate so fast that some units have closed, so that midwives could be moved to areas of urgent need.
A unit in Ascot, Berkshire, shut for two months in 2007 because staff had to be transferred to Slough.'
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