ABOUT
Pregnancy Birth East Kent (east kent's MSLC)
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A place for parents and their supporters to talk about their experience of the maternity service in east Kent. (Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Shepway, Swale and Thanet)
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This website is a place for parents and their supporters to talk about their experience of the maternity service in east Kent. The maternity service in the area covered by the NHS in Eastern and Coastal Kent (Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Shepway, Swale and Thanet) includes the care you receive whilst expecting your baby and the wellbeing of you and your baby during the birth as well as after your baby’s arrival. The service is provided across east Kent in a variety of places; hospitals, children’s centres, maternity centres and at home, and by a variety of people including midwives, obstetricians and paediatricians. It also includes information given to pregnant women in order to make their decisions about scans and tests or to give advice on issues such as food safety.
All the comments on this page are for/by 'Service Users' only but they will be useful to meetings of Maternity Services Liaison Committee in east Kent. These comments will remain anonymous in the MSLC's meetings which take place with health professionals and the CCGs.
You can always email us with any information you would like to keep private.
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Useful numbers:
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Maternity Community Liaison Office
Tel: 01227 864152
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Birth Afterthoughts Service
Tel: 01227 864152
Email: ekh-tr.birthafterthoughts@nhs.net
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Canterbury Maternity Centre
Tel: 01227 783105
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William Harvey Hospital
Delivery Suite
Tel: 01233 616124
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Singleton Midwife-led Unit
Tel: 01233 651868
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Maternity Day care/ Foetal Medicine
Tel: 01233 616638
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Folkestone Ward
Tel: 01233616628
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Dover Maternity Centre
Tel: 01304 222523
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital:
Delivery suite
Tel: 01843 292494
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St Peters Midwife-led Unit
Tel: 01843 235100
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Maternity Day Care
Tel: 01843 234483
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Foetal Medicine/Antenatal Clinic
Tel: 01843225544 ext 62109
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Kingsgate Ward
Tel: 01843 234586
