This is a submission to East Sussex County Council Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Maternity Services in the High Weald locality in response to the current public consultation for East Sussex.

This consultation focuses almost entirely on the locations of maternity units and when applied to High Weald, it totally misses the real maternity issues and the main concern of local women.

This submission suggests that ESCC HOSC should ask the HWLH CCG to identify the broad shape that alternative maternity arrangements might take, and to consult informally on them locally within High Weald.