Concern at rising infant mortality rate in England and Wales

Obesity, poverty, smoking and a shortage of midwives could all be factors, say health professionalsMore babies are dying within a year of being born, in a “disturbing reversal” of several decades of the NHS’s success in reducing infant mortality. Health professionals, charities and midwives voiced serious concern at the trend in England and Wales, which was confirmed in data published by the Office for National Statistics. The rate rose from 2.6 neonatal deaths per 1,000 births