Lancashire Women & Newborn Centre
Address
Burnley General Teaching Hospital
Casterton Avenue
Burnley
BB10 2PQ
Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre (LWNC) opened its doors in November 2010 as a brand new purpose built facility on the Burnley General Hospital Site.
The Centre delivers a range of services for women and babies coordinated by the Family Care Division of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust.
This state-of-the-art building includes East Lancashire's centralised consultant-led maternity unit, as well as a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a midwife-led birth centre.
All our facilities are purpose-built, clean and modern with birthing pools available in all the birth centres and on the birth suite.
Over 6,500 women choose to have their babies at ELHT every year.
We were the first Trust in the world to be awarded the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Gold Standard accreditation in 2017. This means we consistently demonstrate best practice standards around infant feeding and relationship building within maternity services.
We are one of a small number of maternity services nationally that is able to offer a full range of choice of place of birth, including:
- Homebirth
- Stand alone, midwife-led birth centres in Blackburn and Rossendale.
- Burnley Birth Centre, located next to the main Maternity Unit in the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley General Teaching Hospital.
- A consultant-led birth suite is located in the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley General Teaching Hospital.
Our specialist services include
What we offer:
- Antenatal clinics
- Ultrasound scan facilities
- Specialist medical antenatal clinics (for women with medical conditions such as Diabetes)
- Specialist multiple pregnancy (twins & triplets) clinic
- Fetal wellbeing clinic
- Specialist rainbow clinic
- Antenatal day assessment unit
- Maternity triage
- Central Birth Suite
Central Birth Suite details
- 19 birth rooms
- 2 close observation beds which are used if 'mum' requires further monitoring after the baby is born
- 2 birth pools with the option of mobile fetal monitoring
- Level 3 Neonatology provision
- A suite is available to provide a sensitive and sympathetic environment in which privacy and dignity is respected so that bereaved families can spend time with their baby
- 38 bedded postnatal ward comprises three zones – A, B and C. The ward is equipped to also provide additional care to transitional care babies who have specific needs.
- Antenatal and Postnatal Community Midwifery Services
- Remifentanil PCA offered as an alternative to epidural in labour
- Tours of the facilities at Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre (suspended due to COVID-19)
