Watford General Hospital Maternity Unit
Address
Watford General Hospital
Vicarage Road
Watford
Herts WD18 0HB
'Welcome to our maternity unit at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust. We provide personalised, safe and high quality maternity care for families living in Hertfordshire, North London and surrounding areas. It is important to us to provide the very best care for every person, every day.'
We are committed to providing personalised, safe and high quality maternity care during your pregnancy, labour & birth and the early postnatal period.
We offer maternity care from a number of hospitals and community hubs and our main maternity hospital is Watford General Hospital. You may choose to give birth at home, in our midwife-led Alexandra Birth Centre, or our consultant-led delivery suite. We will support you to make an informed decision as having this choice has been shown to have a positive effect on your birth experience.
We provide outpatient antenatal and postnatal clinic services at Watford General Hospital, Hemel Hempstead General Hospital, St. Albans City Hospital and local Family Centre hubs. We provide inpatient antenatal and postnatal services at Watford General Hospital.
Here at West Herts we understand that you have many choices to make and many questions to ask. We have, therefore, designed these app pages for you to use with your midwife and/or doctor. This aims to support you and your family to have the very best care and experience possible, during this very special time.
Our specialist services include
Our highly-skilled team of midwives, obstetricians, anaesthetists, nurses and support staff are here to support you, from the time you find out you are pregnant to the birth of your baby and in the first weeks of parenthood.
Most women will navigate through pregnancy without complications but others will require specialist input.
Our specialist services are listed below:
- Fetal medicine service
- Antenatal screening including Non-Invasive Pre-natal Testing (Harmony Test)
- Diabetic service
- Obstetric haematology service
- Maternal mental health service
- Safeguarding and complex needs team
- Pelvic floor service
- Birth after caesarean section
- Consultant midwife birth options clinic