Hospitals making £5.50 per baby born through cash-for-access deals Another trust - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - made £71,610 in the same time period. The contracts were branded "completely inappropriate" by campaigners, who accused hospitals of profiteering at the expense of new mothers. They are calling for salespeople to be banned from wards. Should Bounty representatives be banned from maternity wards? Mothers have also criticised the contracts saying they have been harassed by representatives of the companies moments after giving birth. A series of FOI requests showed varying payments to hospitals from £5.50 a child in Nottingham to 20 pence per child born in Ashford. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University hospitals NHS was paid £4.50 per baby born plus a 50 pence bonus for each photograph. Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust was paid £2 per baby born with a £1.30 bonus for each photograph. And University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust received £1.40 for each baby born from Bounty, based on a birth rate of 6,000 per annum, plus £6.11 from Tempest per photo. Just thirty-one NHS Trusts out of the 168 NHS Trusts in Britain said they did not have contracts with Bounty or Tempest. The majority of those said it was because they did not have maternity wards. Another 30 NHS Trusts failed to reply within the 20 day time period and one - County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust - refused to disclose any details as it was "commercially sensitive." Three other trusts in Bedford, East and North Hertfordshire, Great Western Hospitals and John Radcliffe Hospital refused to give breakdowns of the deals to "protect" commercial interests but did disclose total incomes of £15,200, £12,844, £36,780 and £25,770 respectively. Of the trusts that responded, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust generated the most - £71,610 - for allowing Bounty bed-to-bed access to its maternity ward patients. Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Trust claimed the least, with just £90.80 earned as a donation in the last year. Several NHS trusts earned between £20,000 and £30,000 including West Middlesex (£27,140), Barking, Havering and Redbridge (£24,979), Central Manchester (£21,251) and Brighton (£20,670). Parents have expressed alarm at the NHS's apparent endorsement of the Bounty salespeople, with hospitals providing information on the "Bounty lady" in pregnancy and childbirth literature. Childbirth charities have called for the cash-for-access deals to be banned over concerns about vulnerable mothers being put under inappropriate financial pressure. Mumsnet has also launched a campaign against allowing Bounty representatives into wards. Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the National Childbirth Trust, said it was "completely inappropriate" for hospitals to allow salesmen and women onto the maternity wards, and even more "astonishing" that they were being paid for the access. Ms Phipps also questioned whether the NHS was aware how much money Bounty and Tempest were making. We don't think mothers should be subjected to any selling activity while they are in the hospital giving birth. We think it is inappropriate that these people are in there at all. They shouldn't have face-to-face selling in a hospital. "They are making a lot of money from it," she said, adding that the "endless stream" of advertising material reaches beyond maternity wards as it is also found in doctor's wards and taken to pregnant mother's homes by midwives. A spokesperson from Bounty said: "We do have individual commercial arrangements with NHS trusts which we tender for and which cumulatively total around £2 million pounds. These allow us to provide a service that the vast majority of maternity units and mums join and value because they are not readily available to an awful lot of mums. This includes general pregnancy advice, health advice, birth advice and maternity leave advice. Anthea Gregory-Page, Deputy Head of Midwifery at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust said: "We have a good working relationship with Bounty, who have been offering services at the trust for more than 20 years. The only complaints we receive are from those who aren't given a pack. A Department of Health spokesman said:"Women should be able to give birth in a safe, comfortable and relaxing environment. It is up to local NHS hospitals to decide locally whether to allow Bounty representatives on to their maternity wards. They also have a say about which mums the representatives are allowed to visit and when. We do not hold any central contracts with Bounty or have any influence over the conduct of their sales representatives. But as with all hospital visitors, we would expect them to respect the privacy of all women and their families.