{"id":32387,"date":"2025-07-06T01:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hartlepool-hospital-baby-delivery-restart-reviewed-monthly\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T01:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:23:43","slug":"hartlepool-hospital-baby-delivery-restart-reviewed-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hartlepool-hospital-baby-delivery-restart-reviewed-monthly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartlepool hospital baby delivery restart ‘reviewed monthly’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Rowan Suite maternity unit at Hartlepool Hospital became fully operational in 2020<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A pause in the delivery of babies at a hospital, caused by staff shortages and illness, is being reviewed monthly by health chiefs.<\/p>\n

The midwife-led Rowan Suite maternity unit at the University Hospital of Hartlepool became fully operational in late 2020 and has since delivered 113 babies.<\/p>\n

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust bosses announced a three-month pause in “intrapartum care” – the period during labour and delivery – at the site in May due to “staffing absences”.<\/p>\n

But Steph Worn, director of midwifery, said they will be reviewing the decision “month by month”, with no fixed date set for restarting deliveries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Worn told a meeting of Hartlepool Borough Council’s audit and governance committee that hospital bosses are “fully committed” to providing the service and are “continuously reviewing” the situation.<\/p>\n

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, antenatal and postnatal care are continuing as normal during the period, as well as home births.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Group nursing officer Emma Nunez said: “It’s obviously very dependent on our current workforce and the vacancies and the sickness absences we’ve got at the minute, so it’s hard to put a time limit on that.”<\/p>\n

Health officers claimed the pause in intrapartum care will have “quite a small impact on the Hartlepool population”, with the Rowan Suite previously only taking bookings for pregnancies considered to be “low risk”.<\/p>\n

Figures presented to the meeting for a recent 18-month period stated 4,000 births occurred in the trust area, with 32% of women from a Hartlepool postcode.<\/p>\n

Of these, 97% of deliveries occurred at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton and about 1% were at the Rowan Suite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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