Home birth service suspended by East Kent Hospitals Trust and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust due to significant pressure on ambulance service
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Updated: 14:41, 31 December 2020
Mums-to-be hoping to give birth at home have been told this is not possible due to significant pressures on the ambulance service.
Bosses at East Kent Hospitals Trust, which runs the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and QEQM in Margate, and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust have suspended home births for the time being to help ease the strain on stretched crews during the pandemic.
QEQM Hospital in Margate. Picture: Google Street View
They initially stopped them in April, with the home birth service resuming in a phased way in June.