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About 30 people attended the first public consultation meeting about plans to temporarily remove consultant-led maternity care at a north Wales hospital due to staff shortages.

Health officials are considering making one hospital maternity unit at Wrexham, Bangor or Bodelwyddan midwife-led.

A fourth option is to leave things as they are but managers have warned the situation is becoming "unmanageable".

The meeting in Rhyl, Denbighshire, follows a protest in the town.

are due to be held across north Wales over the next three weeks.

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's preferred option is to withdraw consultant-led maternity care at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Bodelwyddan.

Executive medical director Matt Makin, who was part of a panel taking questions from members of the audience, said: "The service change is for a short time as possible so we can recruit the best people... we know we will be having a neo-natal intensive care unit at Glan Clwyd in 2018, we know we'll need a team to wrap around that unit."