Kettering General Hospital Maternity Services in 2007 delivered 3,755 women who gave birth to 3,798 babies. A further 91 women were also delivered at home by our Community Midwifery Staff.

Our Maternity and Children’s Services are priority investment areas for Kettering General Hospital. We are looking at a £15M capital investment to create a purpose built children’s facility, co-located with Maternity Services and a new Midwife Led Delivery Unit. There is also considerable revenue investment to increase our midwifery and healthcare worker staffing levels.

We will be extending our Midwifery Service into Children’s Centres to ensure women accessing the Maternity Service have more choice of where to be seen and we will be working towards achieving Baby Friendly Status to ensure the Breast Feeding message is high on our agenda.

A County wide Maternity Services Liaison Committee was initiated in November 2007. This is an independent advisory body that has a key role in the successful implementation of the recommendations within the Maternity Module of the Children’s National Standards Framework.

If you are interested in joining that group as a user of Maternity Services, your views and experience will help plan, monitor and improve local services.