More than one in every 100 babies delivered last month at a major NHS trust which runs health care services across Greater Manchester were stillbirths.
There were six stillbirths in October at the Northern Care Alliance (NCA) which runs Salford Royal, the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General and Rochdale Infirmary.
Last year, there were 31 stillbirths in total across the whole organisation. READ MORE: Exhausted midwife speaks of "absolute hell" amid plummeting staff numbers and more pressure than ever It comes as staffing of midwives continues to be 'challenging' and the number of patients receiving one-to-one care in labour has dropped to around 90 pc.