The centre will have the capacity to deliver up to 10,500 babies a year and will provide care for mothers and their babies from across Yorkshire and the north of England.
Centralising services will also bring about safer care for mothers and their babies by providing specialist care and facilities under one roof – currently delivered across two sites at St James’s Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary.
The new maternity centre will provide the following benefits:
- A brand-new purpose-built induction and labour suite
- Four brand new state-of-the-art theatre units
- One of those four theatres dedicated for planned Caesarean sections
- A midwife-led unit
- A consultant-led birth unit for higher-risk mothers
- Two new large maternity wards with space for partners to stay
The Maternity Assessment Unit, Consultant-Led and Midwife-Led Units, a central induction unit and the Neonatal Unit will all be located together. This will provide access to our specialist medical teams in one place, and help to ensure the safe transfer of newborn babies who need intensive care after birth in the Neonatal Unit.