Wye Valley NHS Trust

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…

All our clinics run weekdays 9am to 4.30pm as detailed below. As well as Sarum House and the Community Hospital sites we operate satellite clinics. Patients can choose the most convenient site to them to be treated. We can also arrange visits at home if you are housebound.   Clinic:  Sarum House Clinic - open Monday to Friday 9am to 4.30pm  Kington Medical Centre - open Monday and Thursday Leominster Community Hospital - open Monday, Tuesday AM, Wenesday and Friday Bromyard Community Hospital - open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday  Ledbury Health and Care Centre - open Thursday  Ross Community Hospital…

What will happen during my induction of labour? Your midwife will ask to take your observations (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, oxygen levels, breathing rate) The midwife will then ask to monitor your baby’s heartrate continuously for around 30 minutes on a CTG monitor Your midwife will then ask for your consent to carry out a vaginal examination to assess your cervix The midwife will then insert the prostaglandin (Propess) high in your vagina Your baby’s heart rate will then be monitored for another 30 minutes to check baby hasn’t immediately been affected To help encourage tightenings, it is important to…

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

The aim of Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is to do more of what matters to us and have the most fulfilling life we can, despite having difficulties along the way. Do you feel like your life is on hold waiting for the pain to get better? Are you stuck, wishing that the pain would just go away? Do you struggle with the idea of accepting your pain? Do you feel that pain has taken away who you used to be? ACT could help you live your life again despite having pain. What is ACT? The aim of ACT is to…

A Radiotherapy Unit at Hereford County Hospital, built, staffed and run by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has now opened. The unit is located next to the Macmillan Renton Unit. Find out more about the new radiotherapy unit. If you wish to contact the Radiotherapy Team email herefordrt@glos.nhs.uk    

Before labour starts, the neck of the womb (cervix) is long, firm and closed. Even before labour begins, the cervix can be drawn up and gets thinner.  The ‘latent’ phase of labour is the very first part of your labour – the early part of first stage. During the ‘latent’ phase the neck of the womb thins and opens up to about 3 to 4 cm.  The latent phase can last several days or weeks before active labour starts. This is normal. Some women have bouts of contractions lasting a few hours, which then stop and start again later or…

About the service Our health visiting teams work with families, early years, health colleagues and other agencies to support the health and wellbeing of pre-school children across Herefordshire. Health visitors are qualified nurses or midwives who have additional training in specialist community and public health nursing. They have specialist training in children's development and health promotion. The health visiting teams comprise health visitors, community staff nurses, and community nursery nurses. As a service, we are committed to supporting the training of students, so students may accompany us during visits. If you would prefer for a student not to be present,…

We will provide you with information when you attend your appointments at Hereford County Hospital with the Breast service team, as appropriate.  Please find below links to some of this information.  Breast surgery - your first outpatient appointment and procedures Your first appointment and procedures - breast surgery Breast Conditions Breast pain (BCC71) Duct ectasia (BCC82) Hyperplasia and atypical hyperplasia (BCC78) Intraductal papilloma (BCC79) Types of Breast Cancer Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (BCC39) Invasive ductal breast cancer (BCC210) Medullary breast cancer (BCC185) Tubular breast cancer (BCC201) Invasive lobular breast cancer (BCC45) Inflammatory breast cancer (BCC23) Paget's disease of the breast…