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The preferred option of NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to replace overnight children's care at the Friarage with a day care assessment unit, and to have midwife-led maternity services instead of consultant-led.
All of this comes after a long running campaign three years ago against plans to downgrade the consultantled maternity unit at the District General Hospital.