The maternity service is currently experiencing a high level of activity. If you are booked to have your baby with us and providing there are no complications please be prepared to go home between 6hrs and 12hrs after the birth. Your midwife will advise you on admission when you are likely to go home. Thank you for your co-operation.
The Queen Mary Maternity Unit has recently been refurbished and expanded and will shortly deliver 4600 babies annually. The department provides a broad range of services to support women experiencing both normal and complicated pregnancy.
Check out our new website at www.westmidmaternity.org.uk
Our new website is designed specifically for mums-to-be, to help you make informed decisions about your birth. It contains a video tour of our maternity unit, details of our Early-bird classes, birth options and lots more. Take a look now.
Facilities:
The Queen Mary Maternity Unit sited at the main entrance to the Hospital provides all in- patient services, having forty two ante / postnatal beds, a Delivery Suite of nine delivery rooms including a high dependency facility and a birthing pool, an obstetric theatre suite with recovery, and a Special Care Baby Unit. The Special Care Baby Unit has 16 cots and provides care for babies of 28 weeks gestation and over. Very small babies and very ill babies are transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit until they are stable.
Attached to QMMU is the Natural Birth Centre (NBC), comprising 4 birthing rooms, 2 with birthing pools and 2 with deep baths.
The adjoining Queen Mary Women’s Health Unit accommodates consultant antenatal clinics, booking rooms, ultrasound scanning and the day assessment unit. Midwife antenatal clinics are provided by each midwifery team within its own locality.
Maternity care is delivered by midwives and obstetricians, who work closely together in a team approach to achieve the best outcome for every woman. Home birth is strongly supported and natural birth is encouraged whenever feasible. The Consultant Midwife promotes and leads on supporting normality within maternity and ensuring that women’s birth choices are achievable.
Clinics
1. Six Consultant-led antenatal clinics:
2. Obstetric medicine, for pregnant or post natal women with medical disorders: every Thursday
morning, Miss Girling
3. Antenatal endocrine clinic, for pregnant women with diabetes, thyroid dysfunction and other
endocrine problems: every Friday morning, Miss Cotzias, Miss Dixit and Dr Kaushal
4. Pregnancy after care clinic alternative Thursdays: Miss Barnes
5. Anaesthetic clinic: Drs Dabrowska, Harrison and Rajakulendran; monthly on a Monday or Tuesday
afternoon
6. Pre-pregnancy clinic, for women with obstetric or medical problems who need advise prior to
conception: Miss Girling, monthly on Monday morning
7. Postnatal endocrine clinic: Fortnightly on Tuesday afternoon, Miss Dixit
8. Consultant Midwife clinic : Every Monday afternoon
9. Miss Backos also offers a recurrent miscarriage clinic – please see gynaecology section for
further details.
Location
The Queen Mary Maternity and Women’s Health units are in a separate building at the entrance to the West Middlesex site.
Referral
GPs can refer women via Choose and Book or a referral letter. Alternatively women can self refer which we actively encourage. We aim to see women between 8 and 10 weeks into the pregnancy for the booking visit. This allows time for a discussion and decision around the nuchal translucency test (combined test) for Down Syndrome screening which is carried out before 14 weeks of pregnancy at the time of the dating scan. Early Bird drop in nformation classes are expected to start from January 2010 and will be advertised accordingly.
Contact:
Tel: 020 8321 5007/6420
Fax: 020 8321 5040
Key achievements
We are delighted to have been the first maternity unit in London to achieve full accreditation by UNICEF as a Baby Friendly hospital, meaning that the care given to mothers and babies around infant feeding has been assessed and has reached internationally recognised standards. We also hold CNST level three – the highest level – for the quality and safety of our maternity healthcare.
Endorsements and patient feedback
Our Maternity Service is proud of its reputation for excellence. Women say they are listened to and involved in their care. Staff say they feel valued and are supported to practise autonomously.
Patient Information
Click here to access our patient information website
Useful links
www.westmidmaternity.org.uk
www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com or phone 0870 444 8707
www.midwife.org.uk
www.drfoster.co.uk
www.birthchoiceuk.com/
www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/maternity.cfm
