EXCLUSIVE
Baby delivery rooms at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital are set to undergo a £4 million revamp in an effort to make wards more homely.
Health bosses are drawing up plans to refurbish part of its maternity section in a bid to improve the services on offer to the several thousand new mums who pass through the Wednesfield site each year.
It comes after a report by the Health Care Commission found the department performed well but some women found the delivery rooms too “clinical”.
The changes will follow improvements already made in the department to give some of the wards less of a hospital feel.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Hospitals Trust Chief Executive David Loughton said today: “We are just working up a scheme now.
“Some of the delivery rooms have just been converted so that there are curtains around it with all the equipment behind, it looks more like a bedroom and we can just get the equipment when needed.”
Other planned improvements include plans to provide women with support and encouragement when it comes to breast feeding and proposals for a specialist midwife for mental health.
By Helen Cartwright
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I’d rather have more competent midwives, doctors & nurses than scatter cusions & curtains.
I WANT TO KNOW WERE THEY ARE GETTING THE MONEY FROM AS THEY ANT GOT NONE THE HOSPITAL IS VERY DURTY IN THE BABY UNIT IN NEW CROSS HOSPITAL MY WIFE HAD HER BABY THERE AND THERE WAS BLOOD UP THE WALLS DUST EVERY WERE NNUNIT WAS JUST AS BAD
Whats the point of spending all this money to make it “more homely” when you go in have the baby then are made to leave within 24 hours. totally pointless exercise, Spend it on improving the long stay wards or even reducing the ridiculous parking fees and facilities.