Could the facilities at Guisborough be upgraded to provide a consultancy-based resource?
This would require intensive capital expenditure that took into account the fabric of the building, the cost of theatre provision and the need for access to other services such as peadiatrics and heamatology. Suggestions from the South-Tees Community Health Council • Look at expanding the catchment area for the Guisborough Maternity Ward • Develop a strategy for getting GP’s in this wider area to refer potentially trouble-free births to Guisborough • Look at the services provided by GP’s and encourage them, by developing links with Guisborough, to opt into obstetrics and maternity provision • Overall, the way forward is intensive provision for 6 hours, discharge to community midwifery support for 28 days and then discharge to general health care • There is an international shortage of medical practitioners, the solution is to treat more people with the available resource and to make conditions attractive enough to retain staff • We can see Guisborough Maternity Unit reopening but we ar
