FOI_7935

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7935

Date Request Received: 14/05/2024 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 20/05/2024 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Maternity closures

Request Category: Companies


Question Number 1: How many times each maternity ward in your trust had to close to new admissions during the financial year 2023/24, and the previous 3 financial years. For each closure please to give the length of time (in Hours and Minutes) for the closure and the reason for the closure. Please include any instances where escalate to divert procedures were invoked, or similar (again listing the duration).

Answer To Question 1: One Maternity Unit at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. 2023/2024 Closed once 9 hours - closed due to Neonatal Unit capacity. All admissions were redirected to neighbouring trust who supported us. 2022/2023 No closures 2021/2022 No closures 2020/2021 No closures No instances where a divert or similar was required in all time periods.

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