The unit aims to maintain the balance between midwife-led care and the involvement of obstetric specialists. A midwife is the lead professional if women are at low risk. Any women with high-risk pregnancies are under the care of a consultant obstetrician, but shared by the hospital-based midwife team and GP.

The hospital offers choice over where and how to give birth to give a more flexible, responsive and accessible maternity service. The maternity wards are a modern design of three- two- and single- bedded rooms. High quality active birth facilities are available on the delivery suite, including full water birth and antenatal assessment unit facilities.

Address: Good Hope Maternity Unit, Fothergill Block, Rectory Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B75 7RR

Telephone number:  0121 424 2682 (community midwife team)

Website: Good Hope Hospital

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Information supplied March 2011. Due for review March 2012