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GoogleA break in the delivery of babies in a hospital, caused by staff shortages and the disease, is being examined monthly by the heads of health.
The Rowan suite maternity unit conducted by the midwives of the Hartlepool university hospital has become fully operational at the end of 2020 and has since delivered 113 babies.
The bosses of the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation announced a three -month break in “Intrappartum Care” – the period of work and childbirth – on the site in May due to “endowment absences”.
But Steph Worn, director of the midwife, said that they would examine the decision “month per month”, without fixed date set to restart deliveries.
Ms. Worn told a meeting of the Hartlepool Borough Council audit and governance committee that the hospital’s bosses are “fully committed” to provide service and “continually examine” the situation.
According to the local Declaration of Democracy Declaration, prenatal and postnatal care normally continues during the period, as well as home delivery.
The group’s nursing manager, Emma Nunez, said: “It obviously depends on our current workforce and the vacant posts and the absence of illness that we have at the minute, so it is difficult to limit time.”
Health workers said that the break in intrapartum care will have “a fairly low impact on the population of Hartlepool”, the Rowan suite taking only reservations for pregnancies considered “at low risk”.
The figures presented in Reunion for a recent period of 18 months said that 4,000 births occurred in the field of trust, with 32% of women in a Hartlepool postal code.
Among these, 97% of deliveries took place at the North Tees University Hospital in Stockton and approximately 1% were in Rowan.
