Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 045 (a)
Stages 5 – 9:
Following agreement of on the preferred option, the following process will be completed:
Stage 5 Review proposed actions for the selected option
Stage 6 Involve relevant groups in developing the implementation plan and ensure ongoing
consultation and engagement with identified groups
Stage 7 Implement an equality action plan to address issues identified
through the assessment
Stage 8 Monitor impact of selected option in line with issues identified
Stage 9 Publish the assessment of this monitoring.
6. ESTIMATED CAPITAL COST AND FUNDING
6.1 Capacity
The proposed activity analysis (see below) has been used to determine the capacity required under
each of the short-listed options along with assumptions about improved service models. These
assumptions include:
• Average length of stay in main Delivery Suite of 12 hours
• Average length of stay in Birth Centre (collocated or stand alone) 18 hours
• Women who give birth in the Birth Centre are discharged home 6 hours after birth
• Women who give birth in main Delivery Suite are admitted to a maternity bed on a ward after
birth
• Average length of stay in maternity bed on a ward is 1.8 days
• Average occupancy in all areas is 75%.
The proposed delivery room and maternity bed capacity in each option is summarised below.
Table 6: Proposed Capacity
Delivery Rooms
Maternity Beds
Sandwell City Sandwell City
Delivery Suite: 12
21 21
(including 1 birth pool) &
4 triage rooms, 2 High
Dependency Beds, 2
recovery beds
2009/10 Delivery Suite: 8
(no triage rooms or birth
pool. No induction, High
Dependency or Recovery
beds)
Do Minimum
Delivery Suite: 8 en
suite &
4 triage rooms, 1 birth
pool, 2 High Dependency
beds
Delivery Suite: 12
(including 1 birth pool) &
4 triage rooms, 2 High
Dependency Beds, 2
recovery beds
Co-located Birth Centre:
5 ( including 1 fixed birth
pool but option of portable
birth pools in all birth rooms)
21 21
Option 1 0 Delivery Suite: 11
(including 1 birth pool) &
6 triage rooms, 2 High
Dependency beds, 4
recovery beds, 2 Induction
0 42
with ability to
increase by an
additional 4 beds
at peak times
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