South Australian doctors call Yorke and Northern Local Health Network's birthing model 'unsafe'

Local doctors say the change puts significant financial stress, psychological stress and family separation on mothers, requiring them to relocate from home to give birth. ( ABC News: Pete Garnish )

The Yorke and Northern Local Health Network has implemented a six-month trial to rotate birthing services between two hospitals.

Four GPs have written to the SA Health Minister to express "urgent concern" over the matter.

The trial will last six months at Jamestown and Crystal Brooks' hospitals.

Link copied Share Share article Doctors have hit out at a new birthing program for hospitals in South Australia's Mid North, calling the model "unsafe" and "unsustainable".

In a joint letter to the health minister, four GPs expressed "urgent concern" about changes to maternity service delivery at Jamestown and Crystal Brook hospitals, which took effect this week.