Stroud Maternity Unit
Field Road
Stroud
GLOS GL5 2JB

michelle.poole@severn-tr.swest.nhs.uk

Contact for general information: As above OR Debbie Harrison

Hospital Services

• midwifery-led care
  
  
• twenty-four hour on-call
  
  
• named midwives
  
  
• ante natal care
  
  
• peripheral Consultant clinics, fetal monitoring and screening for Congenital Dislocation of Hip in neonates
  
  
• post natal care
  
  
• intrapartum care, including waterbirth
  
  
• informed choice to all mothers on place of delivery

• two homely delivery rooms designed for low tech. births which are equipped with birthday beds;
  
  
• two resuscitaires for the resuscitation of the newborn;
  
  
• nine post natal beds for care of the mother and newborn infant including 3 single rooms, all of which aim to provide home-from-home facilities;
  
  
• an ante natal clinic for assessment of women who have an increased obstetric risk under consultant management.
  
  
• access to health education rooms in health centres and surgeries to provide parentcraft classes for all mothers, both in the day and evening;
  
  
• permanent waterpool for hospital waterbirths and a portable waterpool for use at home.

The women attending Stroud Maternity Hospital fall into two groups:

low obstetric risk - these women book for delivery at Stroud Maternity unit, received all their ante natal, intrapartum and post natal care from their named midwife and /or General Practitioner.

high obstetric risk - these women are not suitable for delivery at Stroud Maternity Unit but attend the peripheral Consultant clinic at Stroud for antenatal care, delivering their babies at the Consultant unit in Gloucester before returning for post natal care at Stroud Maternity Unit.

All mothers and babies are transferred to the care of the community midwife on discharge from the Unit. Between 11 - 28 days the care is then transferred to the health visitor. Follow up for women for post natal checks at six weeks is provided by the GP in his surgery.

Peripheral Consultant clinics for Antenatal and postnatal women.

Screening for Congenital Dislocation of Hip in neonates