Our New Women's Hospital

The New Women's Hospital

Like our new children’s hospital, whilst fully integrated with the other new hospitals, the new Women’s Hospital will retain its own identity and separate entrance.

The hospital is designed to provide first class gynaecological and obstetric care and will have over 800 staff who will deliver more than 4,000 babies and see over 22,000 outpatients each year.

There are many benefits to the new women’s hospital, including new, purpose-built facilities, planned to ensure that the facilities which need to be located together are - such as the Neonatal Unit being located next to the Operating Theatre and larger Neonatal Medical and Surgical Units. This allows room for expansion, should demand increase.

Features include:

  1. An Antenatal Clinic – complete with play area for children accompanying their family and a parent craft room for new parents to prepare for their child’s arrival.
  2. A Gynaecology Outpatients Department – including a gynaecology urgency examination area and a separate unit for women referred with urino-gynaecological problems.
  3. A Gynaecology Inpatient Ward – with six single rooms, two isolation rooms and a four bed area. Including a gynaecology day care ward with six single rooms, a four bed area, waiting room and treatment room.
  4. Obstetric Care –two 28 bedded wards, one each for antenatal and postnatal care. In addition there will be 21 single rooms to offer patient privacy.
  5. A Central Delivery Unit – with eight delivery rooms, a high dependency room and a multi birth room for mothers expecting twins or triplets. There will also be a midwifery led delivery unit for low risk pregnancies with eight single rooms and a birthing pool.
  6. Neonatal Surgical and Medical Units - housing 17 intensive care cots and two single isolation rooms. Plus an eight cot high dependency unit and eight cot special care nursery, minor procedures room, bereavement room and quiet room.