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Fears over birth pause

Hartlepool Mail

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May 15, 2025

Health chiefs have revealed there will be a three-month "pause" in the delivery of babies at the University Hospital of Hartlepool.

- Nic Marko

Fears over birth pause

The midwife-led maternity unit at the hospital, named the Rowan Suite, became fully operational in November 2020, catering for pregnant women considered to be "low risk".

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust bosses explained the three-month pause in “intrapartum care” - which is the period from the start of labour until delivery - is due to "staffing absences”.

They stressed antenatal and postnatal care will "continue as normal", along with home births, and they continue to support the "low number of women impacted”.

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