'We urgently need to provide a model for maternity services that addresses current challenges, including issues to do with staffing and recruitment and neonatal care.'
The future of maternity services at a Northern Ireland hospital could go out to public consultation later this week.
The Trust added that available consultant obstetrics and midwifery resources are spread too thinly across both the Antrim and Causeway hospital sites and it is seeing a year-on-year decrease in birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens area. “There are clinically deliverable options for providing a more sustainable and safe model and we have always stressed that we would try to make no permanent changes without full public consultation.
In a statement, the Department of Health said it has been advised by the Northern Trust of the planned public consultation on the future of acute maternity services in the area.
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