William Harvey Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

The William Harvey Hospital is operated by East Kent Foundation NHS Trust. The maternity service sits within the maternity and women’s directorate and provides a range of services from pregnancy, birth and postnatal care. Out- patient services include an early pregnancy unit, antenatal clinics, and a fetal medicine unit. In-patient services include antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal beds. The bereavement suite was in the process of being refurbished and moved to a private location



There is a mixed antenatal and postnatal ward and a triage service which is accessible 24 hours-a-day. The midwifery-led unit includes 8 labour/birth rooms which includes 1 pool room. The labour ward has 10 labour/birth rooms which include 4 induction of labour rooms. One of the rooms include a pool for labour and/or birth. There is a dedicated obstetric theatre and recovery room with 2 beds.



The neonatal intensive care unit is close to the labour ward to support quick access when babies needed to transfer. 



 

Community maternity services are provided by teams of midwives predominantly commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board.