Royal Lancaster Infirmary
Address
Ashton Road
Lancaster LA1 4RG
"At Morecambe Bay Hospitals we will provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based and safe maternity services that meet the needs and wishes of all women and their families."
Our values:
- We will treat all woman and their families with kindness, dignity and compassion
- We will care for all woman and their families as we would wish to be cared for ourselves
- We will always do the right thing.
We will achieve this:
- by working as a multi-professional team with our communities to improve your, physical, mental, social and emotional health at all stages in their life.
Through this we will be able to support women and families to enter pregnancy and childbirth in the best of health and wellbeing.
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has three maternity units. Royal Lancaster Infirmary and the South Lakes Birth Centre, both providing Consultant and midwifery-led care, and Helme Chase, our midwife-led unit.
Our specialist services include
If you choose to have your baby at any of our units you may need to transfer between the units for care during pregnancy or labour, as they operate as one hospital trust (University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay). For more information about this, discuss with your midwife at your first booking appointment.
At Morecambe Bay Hospitals we will provide, compassionate, high quality, evidence-based and safe maternity services that meet the needs and wishes of all women and their families.
Services include:
- Safe and Active birth midwife
- Diabetes service
- smoking cessation service
- perinatal mental health service
- teenage pregnancy specialist midwife
- homebirth service
- Neonatal intensive care and Special Care Baby Units (Consultant sites)
