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