Dr Vanessa Purday, the trust’s chief medical officer, said it was “deeply disappointing” not to be able to reopen the unit.<\/p>\n
She said: “Whilst we’ve made good progress and we have recruited to both our consultant and registrar voters.<\/p>\n
“We don’t have the numbers of doctors we need to do reopen safely and keep the service open safely.<\/p>\n
“We also need to make sure that for those doctors who have joined us are able to complete all the on-boarding checks that we need to do to make sure that they can meet the requirements of the role.”<\/p>\n
She said the 29 September date was “always conditional” on final staffing and safety assurances, adding it “remains safer” to keep the suspension in place.<\/p>\n
“This is not a decision to permanently close birthing services at NDDH,” she added.<\/p>\n
“We remain fully committed to reopening the service and will continue to be open and transparent about our progress, the challenges we face and the steps we’re taking to address them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Vanessa Purday, the trust’s chief medical officer, said it was “deeply disappointing” not to be able to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}