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Maternity services

Our Trust provides midwifery care to women living in and around York, North Yorkshire and the East coast.

Click on the links below to find out more about each of our maternity units and find their contact details:

Better Births and the Local Maternity and Neonatal System

The Better Births report has set out a vision for maternity services across England to become safer, more personalised, kinder, professional and more family friendly.

The Trust is part of a developing Local Maternity and Neonatal System (Humber and North Yorkshire) that offers choice where to have your care and give birth. This includes York, Scarborough, Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Hull. Click here to find out more about the Local Maternity and Neonatal System.

Birth reflections

Pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postnatal period can be different for every woman/birthing person and their families.

For some women, their birth experience may not be what they hoped for. Birth often brings up big emotions and it may be helpful to have the space to reflect and talk about these feelings and experiences with a midwife or other health care professional who will also have access to your notes.

Weeks, months or even years after the birth of your baby, you may find that you would like more information about what happened during their birth and why certain things were done.

The Birth Reflections service aims to support you by allowing you to talk through these feelings and events, and have a better understanding of what happened during your labour and birth.

Find out more about birth reflections here.

You're pregnant - what next?

Congratulations on your pregnancy. It's now time to self-refer to our midwifery services via Badger Notes. This is an electronic system aimed at giving mothers more access to and control of their pregnancy records and care notes.

Find out more about accessing Badger Notes.

If you are having difficulties using Badger Notes, or if you do not have a registered GP or NHS number, get in touch with the relevant midwifery team by phone, using the numbers below.

Contacting Maternity Services

If you want to contact York Hospital Maternity Services, please call 01904 726869 and press 1 for York Hospital. If you want to contact Scarborough Hospital Maternity Services, please call 01904 726869 and press 2 for Scarborough Hospital. You will then be able to choose from a number of options, depending on which service you need. Please choose:

1 for Appointments
2 for Maternity triage
3 for the Delivery suite
4 for the Antenatal and postnatal ward
5 for the Antenatal clinic
6 for the Antenatal Day unit

The numbers for other Maternity Services are below:

Bridlington	01262 423139
Malton	01635 604535
Whitby	07957 663019

Personalised care plans

Personal care plans will help you explore, understand and record your individual choices for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. Everyone and their family is different, with individual needs, which have an influence on care and preferences.

You can choose the provider of your antenatal, intrapartum (labour and birth) and postnatal care.

You can make decisions about the support you need during birth and postnatally; and where you would prefer to give birth, whether this is at home, in a midwifery unit or in an obstetric unit, after full discussion of the benefits and risks associated with each option.

Click here to find out more via our Local Maternity System (LMS).

Antenatal classes

Please ask your midwife about local antenatal classes. These are available from 28 weeks into your pregnancy.

Our maternity department has created a set of films so that you, your birth partner, your family and friends can share your maternity experience.

Screening for pregnant women and their babies

During your pregnancy, you'll be offered some screening tests to try to find any health conditions that could affect you or your baby.

The tests can help you make choices about further tests and care or treatment during your pregnancy or after your baby is born. All screening tests offered by the NHS are free.

More details on these tests are available on the NHS website.

Home birth

You can choose to birth your baby at home. Your midwife can talk to you more about this. You can download our home birth leaflet which explains more.

Meet the team

Senior Midwifery Leadership Operational Structure:

A diagram of the Senior Midwifery Leadership Operational Structure

Maternity Senior Leadership Team Cross-site

Director of Midwifery – Sascha Wells-Munro
Deputy Director of Midwifery – Donna Dennis
Deputy Head of Midwifery – Bev Waterhouse
Community Maternity Matron Cross-site – Susie Kinsella
Acute Maternity Matron Cross-site – Kylie Davies (left) and Sarah Harris (right)
Acute Maternity Matron Cross-site – Hanna Harness
Acute Maternity Matron Cross-site – Sophie Keely
Outpatients Maternity Matron – Gill Locking

York

G2 Ward Manager – Debbie Sharp (pictured) and Claire Spencer
Delivery Suite Manager – Carly Creasy
Community Team Lead – Petra Mullen
Antenatal Day Service Team Lead – Emily Maurice
Triage Lead – Cat Vollans

Scarborough

Hawthorn Ward Manager – Debbie Hollingsworth
Delivery Suite Manager – Rosie Pease (pictured) and Lys-Marie Williams
Community Team Lead – Victoria Clark
Antenatal Day Service Team Lead – Natalie Barker-Dunwell

Pathways of care and information around making informed choices

Follow this link to our information page for details of local groups, what to bring into hospital, maternity patient leaflets, help with breastfeeding and useful websites.