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Mums-to-be facing last minute change to birth plans as maternity units close

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Mums-to-be are having to change their birth plans as maternity units relocate amid the coronavirus pandemic. Ingleside Birth Centre in Salford is closing for births for the next three months and women will have to go to Royal Bolton Hospital instead.

Elsewhere births at Macclesfield District General are being temporarily relocated to neighbouring maternity units. Ingleside, which replaced the birth centre at Salford Royal, is a free-standing midwifery-led unit at Oakwood Park and has four birthing suites, each with its own birthing pool.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust says the closure is 'not a decision we take easily, as we understand that this will be disappointing for the women and their families who were booked to have their baby there'.

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