Midwife Led Unit

Temporary suspension of services at Shrewsbury MLU

28 March 2019 Inpatient services (births and postnatal care) at Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm today (Thursday 28 March) until 8am tomorrow (Friday 29 March) because of short-term staff sickness. Women booked to give birth at Shrewsbury MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Shrewsbury MLU2019-03-29T08:57:49+00:00

Temporary suspension of services at Shrewsbury MLU

22 February 2019 Services at Shrewsbury Midwife-Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm tomorrow (Saturday 23 February) until 8am on Sunday because of short-term staff sickness. Women booked to give birth at Shrewsbury MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at Wrekin MLU or the Consultant-led unit at the [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Shrewsbury MLU2019-02-25T10:31:34+00:00

Maternity users have their say over Midwife Led Units

14 August 2018 Maternity services for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Mid and North Wales have completed a period of engagement with the public following the suspension of inpatient services at the three rural Midwife Led Units (MLUs) run by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). Services at the units in Oswestry, Bridgnorth and Ludlow were suspended on safety [...]

Maternity users have their say over Midwife Led Units2018-08-14T08:00:20+01:00

Maternity service engagement events

23 July 2018 Click to enlarge Until  midnight on 13 August 2018 we are seeking your views on the current operational pressures across our maternity service. We would like to hear from local people, and we are particularly seeking the views of women and families who have recently used, or are currently being supported by our maternity service [...]

Maternity service engagement events2018-07-23T11:39:29+01:00

Mums to help design new-look Shrewsbury midwife unit as part of £400,000 upgrade

19 July 2018 Mums and their families will get to have their say on what the design of the new-look Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will look like as part of the centre’s £400,000 upgrade. Sarah Jamieson looks at the plans for the MLU with Mark Hassall, site manager with Bow Construction The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS [...]

Mums to help design new-look Shrewsbury midwife unit as part of £400,000 upgrade2018-07-19T08:39:20+01:00

Trust seeks to address immediate operational pressures in maternity service

3 July 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is today (Tuesday) starting a six-week period of engagement about a proposal to extend the temporary suspension of inpatient services – including births and postnatal care - in its rural Midwife Led Units (MLUs) at Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Oswestry. The proposal is to extend the current temporary suspension of [...]

Trust seeks to address immediate operational pressures in maternity service2018-07-03T09:30:13+01:00

Temporary suspension of services at Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs to continue

19 June 2018 Inpatient services - including births - at Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Ludlow Midwife Led Units (MLUs) are to remain temporarily suspended in order to safely staff the units where most of our mothers are giving birth, as a period of focused engagement with service users begins. The current suspension of births at the three MLUs will continue until [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs to continue2018-06-19T08:28:00+01:00

Services at Bridgnorth MLU to resume but births at Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs to be temporarily suspended

20 April 2018 Full services, including births, will resume at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit (MLU) on Sunday 22 April. However, births at Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs are to be temporarily suspended for between two and four weeks to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Inpatient services (births and postnatal care) at Oswestry MLU will be temporarily [...]

Services at Bridgnorth MLU to resume but births at Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs to be temporarily suspended2018-04-20T15:06:06+01:00

Temporary suspension of services at Ludlow MLU

6 April 2018 Services at Ludlow Midwife-Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 7.30pm tomorrow (Saturday 7 April) until 8am on Sunday 8 April. Women booked to give birth at Ludlow MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another MLU or the Consultant-led unit at the Princess Royal Hospital [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Ludlow MLU2018-04-10T11:07:57+01:00

Temporary suspension of services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit

29 March 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife-Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 7.30pm today (Thursday 29 March) until 7.30am on Saturday. Women booked to give birth at Oswestry MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another MLU or the Consultant-led unit at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit2018-04-04T14:39:30+01:00