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North Yorkshire farmers 'go to vets for advice on their health'
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Gloucestershire trust has resolved midwife shortage, boss says
The chief executive of a hospital trust where the maternity services have been ranked as "inadequate" since 2022 has said it now employs more midwives than ever McNamara, who leads Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust, said its maternity services had been "a real issue but a real focus" since he took up the post in January are three maternity units in Gloucestershire and, since 2022, one has been partially shut and another entirely shut, both due to midwife shortages. Mr McNamara said the trust's midwife shortage had been "resolved" and that a health needs assessment was being carried out to determine local demand for maternity services, including the closed units. In June, Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced a national investigation into maternity care in England, listing Gloucestershire as one of "the trusts of greatest concern".Women can give birth in Stroud but there is no postnatal care available there, while the entire Aveta Birth Unit in Cheltenham is McNamara joined the trust shortly before its maternity service failures, including maternal deaths being twice the national average, were highlighted on the BBC's investigative documentary show Panorama."Last year, we were in a very precarious position when it came to the number of midwives," Mr McNamara said."We've resolved that issue, we now have more midwives than we ever have done in the service but there's more work to do with some other staff groups." Mr McNamara said midwives were "being spread too thinly" so had been "consolidated" at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester, which has the county's only fully open maternity unit."I recognise that's disappointing for the community but what I have been clear on is I don't want to compromise safety at the expense of choice," he said the health needs assessment, when it is finished in the autumn, would help to find out what is required from the trust's maternity services over the next five to 10 years.
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Air ambulance get keys to new base near Southampton Airport
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been given the keys to its new base. It is hoped the £3.6m unit near Southampton Airport in Eastleigh will reduce response times for almost all about the move from their current base in Thruxton near Andover, the service's Dr Simon Hughes said the team would do "everything they can" not to disadvantage anyone in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. A date for the site's full opening has not yet been set. "We want to be there for you, wherever you live, on the worst day of your life and get to you as quickly as possible. And we're confident this new airbase will enable us to do that a lot better," Dr Hughes said. Once finished, the building will include facilities for an Airbus H135 helicopter, multiple emergency vehicles and a new aftercare support centre to help bereaved families. But Dr Hughes said the biggest difference would be reduced response times. He said more than 70% of callouts were currently south of Winchester, so the location of the new base would allow them to "reach the majority of people really, really quickly". In April 2024 Julian Pearce suffered a cardiac arrest and his heart stopped beating for two minutes. Speaking at the transfer of keys at the new base, he said: "My life was saved... because somebody out there had actually made a donation to allow this [service] to function." The ambulance service said it was £2.4m away from its £3.6m target to transform the building so it was fit for purpose - with funding coming solely from public donations. You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
