Stroud Maternity Hospital

Contact Details

Manager: Michelle Poole

Address:
Stroud Maternity Unit
Field Road
Stroud
GLOS GL5 2JB

Tel: 01453 562140

Fax: 01453 562141

E-mail

Contact for general information: Michelle Poole or Debbie Harrison

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Hospital Services

Stroud Maternity Unit and community midwifery services provide an integrated midwifery-led service, covering all aspects of pregnancy care to all women of child-bearing age who live in the Stroud Locality, working in partnership with General Practitioners and Consultant Obstetricians to provide a comprehensive maternity service.

Services Available

• 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
  
  
  
  

Facilities available

• 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.
  

Referrals

• All women are given an informed choice on place of delivery.
  
  
• 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.

Outpatient Clinics

• Peripheral Consultant clinics for Antenatal and postnatal women.
  
• Screening for Congenital Dislocation of Hip in neonates
  
  
  

Other Clinics

• Breast feeding support clinic
  
  
  
  

Support Services

The hospital receives support from radiology, pharmacy, physiotherapy and hotel services on site and has access to pathology and other departments of the Acute Unit at Gloucester.

Emergency Care

• 24 hour cover for telephone advice and emergency midwifery visits
  
  
  
  

Out of Hours arrangements

Women and their families can telephone the unit and are assessed and referred or visited as appropriate

Voluntary sector connections

The Maternity Hospital enjoys close working relationships with the Stroud Hospitals League of Friends and the National Childbirth Trust.

Additional Information

• The hospital has participated in the hospital acceditation scheme successfully gaining accreditation. A consumer satisfaction survey is undertaken annually and service changes made appropriately. A rolling programme of clinical audit is in operation to audit standards of midwifery care.
  
  
• A named midwife throughout pregnancy and childbirth for every mother is identified at 'booking'.
  
  
• Information leaflets on services currently offered are given to women at the appropriate stage of pregnancy.