Maternity visiting times

Thank you for your support and patience while we have adjusted access and visiting to our maternity services. We are pleased to announce that we are now in a position to make changes to access for birth partners and visitors to our maternity services:

• one birthing partner can still attend between 10.00am - 8.30pm (please note that on midwifery led units and labour wards, birthing partners are permitted during active labour regardless of the time of day);
• additional visiting is available from 2.00pm - 4.00pm and 6.00pm - 8.00pm;
• maximum number of visitors per patient is two;
• any visiting children will form part of the maximum of two visitors per bed. Any difficulties in relation to this must be discussed and arranged with the ward sister and discretion applied on an individual basis (e.g. if there is a young sibling or two young siblings, they can be accompanied by the second adult visitor);
• visiting children must be accompanied by a responsible visiting adult at all times.