Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 035 (a)
3. Option Preferences
Option 1: All births, except for home births will take place at City Hospital.
• This will include low risk births in the co-located Midwife-Led Birth Centre at City
Hospital. All consultant–led antenatal clinics will take place at City Hospital, where there
will also be routine antenatal clinics run by midwives, including scans.
• There would be no births or in-patient maternity care at Sandwell Hospital.
• There will be some antenatal clinics run by midwives, including routine scans at
Sandwell Hospital.
• All special baby care would be provided at City Hospital.
Option 2: All births, expect for home births will take place at City Hospital. Some women
with complicated pregnancies, who need specialist antenatal care will be able to get it at City
Hospital.
• This will include low risk births in the co-located Midwife-Led Birth Centre at City
Hospital. Most consultant–led antenatal clinics will take place at City Hospital, where
there will also be routine antenatal clinics run by midwives, including scans.
• There would be no births or in-patient maternity care at Sandwell Hospital.
• There will be some antenatal clinics run by midwives, including routine scans at
Sandwell Hospital and also a small number of consultant-run antenatal clinics at
Sandwell Hospital.
• All special baby care would be provided at City Hospital.
Option 3: Temporarily relocate all births (normal and complicated) to City Hospital, and then
set up a Community Birth Centre in Sandwell that is not attached to a hospital site.
• Routine antenatal clinics run by midwives for women with normal pregnancies will
continue at Sandwell Hospital.
• Once the stand alone Midwife-Led Birth Centre in Sandwell is open, women with normal
pregnancies will have the additional choice of having their babies in a Midwife–led Birth
Centre in Sandwell.
• Consultant antenatal clinics and births for women with complications will all be at City
Hospital.
• All special baby care would be provided at City Hospital.
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Was the preferred option for 201 (26%) people
Was the preferred option for 185 (24%) people
Was the preferred option for 327 (42%) people
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