coronavirus
Updated: 5 August 2020
Information regarding maternity appointments, births and ward visiting
We recognise the important role partners, family and friends play in supporting our women during their pregnancy, labour and while on our maternity wards.
Restrictions are currently in place to ensure any risk of infection is minimised. These restrictions are under constant review.
Please find details of our current guidelines below.
- Visitors will be allowed on our maternity wards following the rule of one.
This means; one visitor for one hour, once a day per patient, 7 days a week. A designated visitor will be identified when the patient is admitted. Please see full details about visitors to our maternity wards below. - Women in labour are permitted to have one birthing partner with them during established labour and birth or for a planned caesarean.
- No partners or visitors are permitted to attend any antenatal or postnatal outpatient appointments, please attend alone.
- Please note: Unfortunately, at this time this restriction still applies to scans. We are aware of the distress this may cause at such important milestones and hope to be able to lift the restrictions to allow partners to attend 12 and 20 week scans in the next few weeks – we will update any change in restrictions on our website as soon as they are approved.
- No children will be allowed on the maternity wards or in the maternity clinics.
- Please check with your midwife for exceptional circumstances.
- Visitors/birth partners must not enter our maternity unit if they feel unwell, in particular if they:
- Have a temperature, a new continuous cough, a loss of taste or smell, or diarrhoea or vomiting.
- Have been in contact with someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19
- Are self-isolating or shielding
Please click here for more information about birth partners, appointments, scans and ward visits
