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South Tyneside Hospital’s childbirth services to resume
Childbirth services at a North East hospital are to resume following a suspension due to staff shortages.
All deliveries at South Tyneside District Hospital were halted on 4 December 2017 due to ‘significant and ongoing pressures’.
The suspension is to be lifted on 22 January 2018.
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust said a ‘safe’ staffing rota has been secured for the next three months, and that it would look to address its rota beyond that period.
It said services at the hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) remain ‘very fragile’.
Shahid Wahid, medical director at the trust, said: “We are very pleased that we have been able to find a safe solution to the immediate staffing challenges in SCBU.
"I must stress, however, the SCBU rota we have been able to secure is for a three-month period only and is once again reliant on the tremendous goodwill of our amazing staff.”
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