Special deliveries!
Date published: 29 December 2015
Maigread Hickey and Sarit Neumann with two new-born babies
Extra-special Christmas presents were delivered at the Royal Oldham Hospital as newly-qualified midwives helped parents welcome their new babies.
For some of the midwives, it was their first working Christmas in the job following a recruitment drive by the Pennine Acute trust earlier this year.
A dozen new midwives are now working in Oldham as a result of a campaign to recruit new staff and boost maternity services.
Cathy Trinick, head of midwifery at Pennine Acute Trust, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome our new midwives.”
The recruitment drive followed a review of staffing by the trust as part of its maternity improvement plan, which included spending more than £1million to recruit 40 new healthcare assistants to support patients and midwives.
The improvement plan followed the results of an external review investigating the deaths of seven babies and three mothers at the Royal Oldham Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital between December 2013, and July 2014.
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