Freestanding midwife-led birthing units consultation

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Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB) are running a public consultation about midwife-led birthing services at County Hospital, Stafford, and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, Lichfield.  

These services have been temporarily closed since March 2020. The ICB are consulting on a proposal to make this closure permanent – although antenatal and postnatal care would still be provided.

The consultation is open until Sunday 3 August 2025. For the online survey go to: staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk/midwife-led-birthing-units. For a printed copy of the survey or to complete it over the phone, call: 0330 236 9061. If you’d like the ICB to visit your community group to talk about the consultation and hear your views, please get in touch by emailing ssotics.comms@staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk.