Maternity

Maidstone Birthing Centre now open - for details and pictures, click here>>>>

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust new centres of expertise opened in September 2011. The centre for women's and children's health services is now fully in place and offers a range of much improved, modern choices. The changes are being made to maintain and improve the highest and safest standards of care for mothers, babies and children across West Kent.

There will be a consultant-led women and children's centre at the new Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury with full inpatient and surgical faciltiies, and a new midwifery-led Birth Centre at Maidstone Hospital.

Gillian Duffey, Head of Midwifery said: "It is excellent news that very soon we are going to be able to provide all our pregnant mums and their babies with really excellent first-rate facilities and staff, in a wonderful, new, purpose-built environment, perfectly designed to meet their needs."