Health Chiefs' U-Turn Over Maternity Units ; Health Chiefs Who Controversially Axed All but One of Their Maternity Units Have Decided It Was a Mistake - and Are to Try to Reopen Them Again.

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Health chiefs who controversially axed all but one of their maternity units have decided it was a mistake - and are to try to reopen them again.

Bosses at Wiltshire Primary Care Trust have agreed to keep a birthing facility in Trowbridge initially, despite closing the town's hospital and maternity unit, after a series of reports called into question their policy of axeing units.

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Health Chiefs' U-Turn Over Maternity Units ; Health Chiefs Who Controversially Axed All but One of Their Maternity Units Have Decided It Was a Mistake - and Are to Try to Reopen Them Again.

PCT chiefs have closed maternity units in Trowbridge, Devizes and Malmesbury and told mums the only place they can give ...

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