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Maternity

Welcome to our maternity services.
This is a very exciting time for you and your family and we hope to support and guide you through the coming months. Almost 4,400 babies are born annually at our hospitals. We support women and their families through pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period.

ULHT maternity services have worked in collaboration with the Better Births Lincolnshire team to develop the “Better Births Lincolnshire” website, which is the central place for you to access a variety of maternity information, resources, educational material, and signposting. Please follow this link to view this information, from registering your pregnancy in Lincolnshire, to infant feeding support, smoking cessation services, mental health, and a whole range of other topics.

Better Births Lincolnshire (betterbirthlincolnshire.co.uk)

The ULHT maternity services were rated as good by the CQC in February 2022. To read the reports, please follow this link:

Legal entitlement of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust – Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)

Contact Details

Lincoln:

  • Labour Ward: 01522 573 140
  • Antenatal Assessment Centre (24 hours): 01522 573 138
  • Antenatal Clinic: 01522 573 338
  • Nettleham (Maternity) Ward: 01522 573 134
  • Neonatal Unit: 01522 573 604

Pilgrim:

  • Labour Ward: 01205 445 424
  • Antenatal Assessment Unit (08:45 – 16:45): 01205 445 144 – Contact Pilgrim Labour Ward outside of these times
  • Antenatal Clinic: 01205 446 648
  • Maternity Ward: 01205 445 427
  • Neonatal Unit: 01205 445 404

Visiting Times

  • Labour Ward: Two birth partners only, 24 hour open access
  • Maternity Ward:
    • Named birth partner welcome 09:00 – 21:00
    • General visiting 14:00 – 20:00
    • Children are not permitted, unless they are the siblings of the newborn
    • No more than three visitors at the bedside at any time
  • Neonatal Unit: Both parents have open access. Grandparents and siblings are by arrangement with the ward.

Visiting Our Hospitals

You can find our hospital addresses, car parking information, travel details, hospital maps and catering facility information via the following links, for Lincoln, Pilgrim, Grantham and Louth: Hospitals – United Lincolnshire Hospitals (ulh.nhs.uk)

Whilst in our ward areas, your safety is our priority. We therefore ensure that our labour, maternity and assessment ward areas are locked at all times. When you arrive to our ward areas, we therefore ask that you call the bell, speak to a member of staff, and then you will be granted access to the wards if appropriate.

Sleeping and Washing Facilities

If you are a patient on our wards, you will have access to toilets, bathrooms and shower rooms. We have a small amount of toiletries for emergency use, therefore we encourage you to bring your own toiletries.

If you are a visitor to our ward, including birth partners, you will have access to a toilet, but unfortunately we are not able to provide washing facilities for you. We are also unable to provide sleeping facilities for birth partners, unless this has been agreed as part of a personalised care plan. We therefore encourage you to have a plan in place to travel home when you need to refresh or sleep.

Catering Arrangements

If you are a patient on our wards, we will provide you with three meals per day. We are unfortunately unable to provide meals for visitors, including birth partners. We therefore encourage you to bring your own snacks when you visit our hospitals, or to utilise the catering facilities outlined in the “hospitals” link above, or the vending machines which are located close to our maternity wards.

Smoking

All ULHT sites are non-smoking areas, which means that you are not allowed to smoke within our hospital grounds. If you are a patient on our wards, we can provide you with Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), and we encourage you to speak to your maternity team to arrange this. If you are receiving maternity care within our services, you can also access the support of the STAAR (smoking cessation) team. You can contact the team on [email protected] or speak to your maternity team to arrange this.

Sharing Your Experience

There is a variety of ways that you can share your experience, both positive and constructive:

Social Media

ULHT Maternity Services have social media platforms, for you to access key messages, read patient stories, hear how you can get involved, and view educational material: