Rejected petition Re-open Honiton & Okehampton NHS Birth centres NOW!

Honiton & Okehampton birth centres in Devon continue to have birth services suspended due to ongoing staff issues. This means that women in labour need to travel further to reach maternity care, or wait longer while midwives travel out to them for home birth support. These are unnecessary risks.

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There is a fear that these birth centres will remain closed due to difficulty recruiting key staff. This is not acceptable. We demand our birth centres are re-opened without delay. We understand this requires additional resources be made available for commissioning education and training for more key clinical staff within the NHS Maternity service in Devon. We ask these resources are made available as a matter of urgency.
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https://goo.gl/5uRkbB
https://goo.gl/TcmLfn
https://goo.gl/GR6eKH

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This is the responsibility of the local NHS bodies, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 13 October 2017
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