Visiting Times
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Gynaecology
2pm - 3pm and 6pm - 8pm each day.
These visiting times are limited so that you can you can enjoy the rest and recuperation that are important parts of your treatment. For the same reason we ask you to limit your visitors to two people in the evening following your operation.
Maternity
Your partner or friend is welcome to stay with you throughout your labour period. For the remainder of the time rest and recuperation are essential, so our visiting times reflect this:
Partners/Support person Visiting hours: 11am - 8pm
Other visitors’
Afternoon visiting hours: 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Evening visiting hours: 6.30pm - 8pm.
Your own children are, of course, welcome during these hours.
Naturally, there will be circumstances where people’s schedules don’t fit normal visiting times. If that’s the case with your friends or relatives, we’ll be happy to try and rearrange things if possible. Just have a word with your nurse or ward manager.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
All parents and brothers and sisters of newborn babies are welcome to visit at any time.
Handover times: Nursery
At handover times staff use the nursery to brief colleagues as they take over for the next shift. This covers information on all babies on the unit, so nurses have to observe strict confidentiality. For this reason we ask parents not to enter the nursery during the following periods: 7.15am - 7.30am; 1.45pm - 2pm; 9pm - 9.30pm.
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Ward rounds
Every day the Consultant visits the ward and discusses the progress of each baby. Once again, confidentiality is important. So please feel free to attend, but to preserve privacy we’d appreciate it if you waited outside the ward until the round reaches your baby.
Quiet time
A daily period of peace and quiet is a great help in promoting a baby’s growth and development. That’s why we have a Quiet Time each day, when lights are lowered and babies are left undisturbed for a couple of hours. Quiet Times are 12 noon till 2pm in the Intensive Care nurseries, and 2pm till 4pm in the High Dependency nurseries.
Other visitors
Besides you, your husband or partner and any brothers or sisters of your baby, other visitors are welcome between 3.45pm and 4.45pm, and 5.45pm and 8pm. To preventing overcrowding we ask you to limit the number of visitors to two per cot, one of whom should be a parent. If that’s not possible on any occasion, have a word with your nurse or ward manager and we’ll do our best to help out.
Grandparents
Grandparents can visit at 15.45-16.45 and 19.00-20.00. There should be no more than two at the cot at one time and one of them should be a parent. If baby has no Grandparents four other family members can be identified as named visitors.
In circumstances when you are unable to visit special arrangements can be made (contact the unit to discuss this).
