The head of midwifery at Nottingham hospitals admits some parents are choosing to have their babies elsewhere due to an ongoing review into its maternity services. However, Ruth Brown, who is working in the role on an interim basis at Nottingham University Hospitals , said the trust was already seeing improvements in its departments.
As a result of the review, which is likely to become the largest of its kind in NHS history, Ms Brown said evidence suggested some parents were choosing to have their babies elsewhere. "A number of women that access our service that are from borders areas, such as people who are equidistant between us and Derby, Sherwood Forest or Leicester, we have noticed a small number of women who have chosen others," she told Nottinghamshire Live on a visit to the maternity unit at City Hospital.
On the ward, Megan Wing, who has been a midwife at City Hospital for around a year, said she had "good and bad days". "Supporting women and families is what we get into the job for in the first place so that's the most rewarding thing for me," she said. "You have to remember it's not to do with your own practice and it doesn't affect what you do every day." Evie Lord, 22, a midwife who joined NUH six months ago, added: "I think it's something everyone has in the back of their mind, but generally we have to put women and their families first."
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