Kettering General Hospital to move new mothers over Raac fears

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Kettering General Hospital to move new mothers over Raac fears
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Parents will have to be wheeled across a road to a pop-up ward while remedial works take place.

New mothers have been told they face being moved across a road after birth due to fears over crumbling concrete.

Mara Tonks, the hospital's director of midwifery, said while it was "not ideal at all" to move patients to the Sir Thomas Moore Ward, the action was necessary. The hospital says the safety and experience of its patients and their babies are "of paramount importance", one user said she would not feel "dignified being dragged the car park" with a baby.

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