New Maternity Hospital
Number of deliveries per year: 8500 per year
Antenatal ward, number of beds and staffing compliment a 150 beds & 50 neonatal cots, 376 midwives, nurses, student midwives, healthcare assistants & nursery nurses
Number of Midwives patient ratio: Birth Rate Plus
Postnatal ward, number of beds:
2 floors 28 beds
2 floors 31 beds
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Working hours 39 hours per week, flexible working time.
Shift times: day shift, night shift, 12hour duties
Education opportunities
Peri-operative midwives, research midwives, paediatric higher diploma, neonatal higher diploma
Outline Continuing professional development.
Ongoing education training staff development, practice development, centre of midwifery education.
Developments in process:
Community midwifery
