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THE NUMBER of midwives could be cut across the county's hospitals because of a falling birth rate.
Bosses at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust are carrying out a review of maternity 'capacity' at the Alexandra and Worcestershire Royal Hospitals.
They had been preparing a business case to add to the Trust's existing 290 midwives after a shock rise in births last year with almost 169 more born in 2012/13 than the 6,228 in 2011/12 which left their midwife to birth ratio below the expected standards.
http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk...across-Worcestershire-could-be-cut-82287.html
Bosses at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust are carrying out a review of maternity 'capacity' at the Alexandra and Worcestershire Royal Hospitals.
They had been preparing a business case to add to the Trust's existing 290 midwives after a shock rise in births last year with almost 169 more born in 2012/13 than the 6,228 in 2011/12 which left their midwife to birth ratio below the expected standards.
http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk...across-Worcestershire-could-be-cut-82287.html