Released 24 May 2024
Request:
- How many times each maternity ward in your trust had to close to new admissions during the financial year 2023/24, and the previous 3 financial years.
For each closure please to give the length of time (in Hours and Minutes) for the closure and the reason for the closure. Please include any instances where escalate to divert procedures were invoked, or similar (again listing the duration).
Information disclosed:
- The Trust offers a multi-site maternity service, with some services only offered from one site. Patients are informed about the nature of the service and asked for their site preference which is honoured whenever possible.
There have been no occasions when all maternity units were closed at the same time.
Patients may have been internally diverted between units for logistical or capacity reasons only. In addition, patients are only ever moved to another Trust due to the clinical needs of an individual patient, and not for logistical or staffing reasons.
Please note additional information about the Trust’s maternity services and maternity units can be found on our website.