HEALTH chiefs have given more details around the suspension of home births in Gloucestershire.

Home births were initially suspended for two weeks after safety concerns were raised by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff.

The need to train up new midwives and a review of the model of care in maternity were behind the longer suspension of home births.

Cllr Rebecca Trimnell (Lib Dem, Hempsted and Westgate) asked about the temporary suspension of home births at last week’s meeting of the health and overview scrutiny committee at Gloucestershire County Council.

She said: “How long will it take for the trust to develop a new staffing model to allow home births to continue?”

“Safety is paramount and I would not want there to be home births if it is unsafe.”

Matt Holdaway, th

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