About Us
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Following the successful transfer of obstetric and neonatal services from Aintree Hospital at the beginning of 2004/05, all births now take place at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. Comprehensive antenatal services continue at our Aintree site, as well as at our other community based facilities in Bootle, Kirkby, Dovecote and Speke.
Our staffing levels have improved significantly since the transfer of services, when over 150 nurses, midwives and support staff came from Aintree to work at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, recruitment of midwives has significantly improved.
New technology has also helped us to expand our services to other hospitals so that we can now provide diagnosis and specialist advice to patients from the Isle of Man and further afield without them having to travel to the Trust. In addition a new computerised CTG (cardiotocograph, the electronic recording of the fetal heart rate) archive system was purchased for central delivery suite enabling much closer monitoring of women in labour whose pregnancy is considered high risk.
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The Maternity Services offered at the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust are as follows:
- Antenatal care – hospital or community based
- Fetal medicine
- Twin clinic
- Home births
- Midwifery led Unit
- Delivery Suite
- Infant feeding team
- Link clinics for minority ethnic communities
- Smoking cessation midwives
- Parent education
- Public health
Swine Flu Vaccination – patient advice
We, consultants, obstetricians and midwives from Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust fully endorse the guidance by the Chief Medical Officers, NHS Choices and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) that all pregnant women should be offered the Swine Flu vaccine.
We encourage all pregnant women in our care to contact their GPs and arrange to have the vaccine at the earliest convenience. More details on the safety of the vaccines can be found on the following websites;
