Our Health Visiting clinics are open to parents and carers of children under 5 years old, and they offer you the opportunity to discuss any concerns about your child's health or development and have them weighed. The clinics offered are drop in with the exception of Kington which is a booked clinic, if you would like to book into one of our appointment slots in Kington you can call the Single Point of Access on 07870 682711 (Monday-Friday 9am-4pm). Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Hinton Community Centre 9:30am - 11am    Credenhill St David's Community Centre (HR4 7DQ) 1st Monday of the month 9:30-12midday  Widemarsh Children Centre…

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The Department of Respiratory Medicine provides a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services as well as treatments for patients with lung, breathing and other related conditions. Overview of services Respiratory team Arrow Ward Early supportive discharge team Outpatient respiratory services  Bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy  Respiratory physiology department Pulmonary rehabilitation team Sleep service 

  Women's Health Ward and gynaecology assessment is now located on the second floor at Hereford County Hospital.  Visiting information. Gynaeology department information    

Once baby is born, the midwife (or you!) will bring baby up to your abdomen or chest depending on the length of baby’s cord. Baby will be gently dried whilst on you and a warm layer will be placed over the top of you and your baby. We aim to keep baby skin to skin with you for at least an hour or as long as you like. Skin to skin has many benefits to you and baby: Calming for both baby and mother Helps to regulate baby’s temperature Enhances the bonding process Helps to regulate baby’s breathing and heart…

Reduced fetal movements describes a reduction in the usual amount of movements your baby makes, a loss of movements or weaker movements.  There are a few reasons why you might feel your baby’s movements have changed, if baby is in a different position, if you are in a different position or where the position of your placenta is, for example, if your placenta is at the front of your tummy then you might feel less movements. You will probably have started to feel your baby move from around 16 to 20 weeks of pregnancy and from around 32 weeks you…

Refer yourself here for maternity care If you are newly pregnant, you can now enter your details on a secure website (see link below) that will send a referral straight to our community midwifery team. You don’t need to contact your GP or make an appointment with them – we will tell them about your pregnancy. However, if you have any urgent concerns about your health during early pregnancy, please do contact your GP for advice. The best time to fill in the online form is when you are 6 to 7 weeks pregnant. We will then phone you to arrange…

We have introduced a new maternity electronic patient record system.  This means that we no longer use paper forms for recording information about your maternity care. It only applies to the maternity service, which is from your first point of contact with one of our midwives through to when you are discharged from the care of your midwife to a health visitor.  Our midwifery team now record this information on the new electronic system online on a computer or iPad.   This means that we can access information about your maternity care in one place, safely and securely at all…

Monitoring Data A key priority, in line with our public sector duty, is to collect and publish data that can help us work together to improve our employment practices and services for all communities (Ethnicity, Age, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Religion & Belief, Disability, Marriage and Civil Partnership, Gender Re-assignment, Pregnancy and Maternity). Herefordshire Population Census 2011 2021 Census - Herefordshire Council Gender Pay Gap Gender pay gap 2022/23 If you require Gender Pay Gap data for previous years that is not available on this website page please contact our communications team Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) From 1 April 2015, all…

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