Thursday 25 April 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6423
Date Request Received: 06/01/2022 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 18/01/2022 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Maternity Services
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: 1a) Have any of your midwife-led units been temporarily suspended or unavailable to people at any point during the last 6 months? (1st June 2021 - 1st December 2021) 1b) If so, how many times was each one temporarily suspended or unavailable? If you have more than one maternity service, please specify the numbers per service. 1c) What were the reasons for each suspension or closure? If you have more than one maternity service, please specify the reasons for each. i) Insufficient staffing numbers ii) Bed shortages iii) Both bed and staffing shortages iv) Other, please specify | |
| Answer To Question 1: N/A We do not have a MLU within the service as yet. | |
| Question Number 2: 2a) Have people been "diverted" from your maternity services (obstetric unit/midwife-led unit/birth centre) to another hospital at any point during the last 6 months (1st June 2021 - 1st December 2021) including for any period lasting less than 4 hours? 2b) If so, how many times were people diverted? If you have more than one maternity service, please specify the numbers per service. 2c) What were the reasons for the diversions? If you have more than one maternity service, please specify the numbers per service. i) Insufficient staffing numbers ii) Bed shortages iii) Both bed and staffing shortages iv) Other, please specify | |
| Answer To Question 2: 2a) One episode diverting pre term women to neighbouring trusts. 2b) one period for 7 hours 2c)No NICU cots iii) | |
| Question Number 3: 3a) How many midwives do you employ? 3b) How many of your midwives are currently signed off on long-term sick leave? 3c) How many midwives on are on long-term sick leave due to anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses | |
| Answer To Question 3: 3a) 114 3b) less than 5 3c) less than 5 | |
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