Invitation To Maternity Units
If you represent a NHS maternity unit and wish us to provide information about your unit on our site, then please contact us.
The sort of things you can tell us about are:-
- Changes to do with your contact details, including how to contact your Community Midwives and how to book hospital tours
- Comments on the maternity statistics on our website
- Latest maternity statistics from your unit
- Disabled facilities
- Interpreting services available
- Provision of antenatal classes, who runs them and who can attend them
- How many birthing pools you have, and if there is a charge: numbers of midwives trained to deliver in water
- If epidurals/low dose epidurals are available any time
- If there is a midwifery-led unit for low-risk women associated with the unit
- Hospital Protocols for any specific maternity issues (eg previous Caesarean section)
- Bathroom facilities in labour rooms
- Post-natal visiting times (partners/children/others) and restrictions
- Provision for partners to stay
- Post-natal bathroom facilities (ratio to mothers)
- Security provisions
- Bus and trains that serve the unit.
- Availability of car parking.
E-mail the material to us, either as a Word document or just plain text in an e-mail.