Maternity Services 12 Week Engagement
Background
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is responsible for all health services across the former county of Gwent, (including the local authority areas of Newport, Caerphilly, Monmouth, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent) plus some of the population of south Powys. The midwifery-led model of care within the Health Board focusses on supporting the woman, birthing person, and their family through kind, compassionate care, using quality evidence to inform decision making. This is intended to ensure positive pregnancy and childbirth experiences that promote wellbeing and give babies the best start in life.
Maternity services have a duty of care to ensure sufficient provision of midwifery-led services to meet demands in all areas. Choice is essential to maternity care and all women should be able to make choices about their planned place of birth.
The following has been produced to provide information about midwifery-led maternity services within the Health Board, to advise of recent issues experienced by the service and to set out proposals for how these services could be delivered in the future. It is important that everyone who has an interest in maternity services has an opportunity to understand the proposals and to let us know their views.
To ensure patients can consider this proposal, the Health Board is working closely with Llais (formally known as Aneurin Bevan Community Health Council) and a 12-week period of public engagement has been arranged, running from Tuesday 9th May until Friday 28th July 2023.
This period of engagement has now ended.
How can people make their views known?
Views can be shared by any of the following means: -
Survey:
Complete our survey which can be accessed via the Health Board website or via this QR and URL code below:
URL code: https://forms.office.com/e/RNT1QWwkjq
You may also wish to scan it, or take a good quality photo and email it to us at: ABB_BABI@wales.nhs.uk
Public Engagement / Information Sessions:
Attend one of our public engagement / information sessions, where you can find out more about the proposals and ask any questions of Health Board / maternity staff. These have been arranged as follows:-
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Monday 15th May 4:00pm – 6:00pm |
Birth Centre Nevill Hall Hospital Abergavenny |
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Wednesday 17th May 4:00pm – 6:00pm |
Birth Centre Royal Gwent Hospital Newport |
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Friday 19th May 12:00noon – 2:00pm |
Birth Centre Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Ystrad Mynach |
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Monday 22nd May 2:00pm – 4:00pm |
Birth Centre Royal Gwent Hospital Newport |
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Tuesday 30th May 2:00pm – 4:00pm |
Birth Centre Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan Ebbw Vale |
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Friday 9th June 10:00am – 12:00noon |
Birth Centre Nevill Hall Hospital Abergavenny |
We are also arranging additional drop-in sessions to give people the opportunity to talk with senior midwifery staff and to ask any questions about the proposals. These will be held on-line via Microsoft Teams and will be held at the following times: -
Wednesday 12th July 2023 at 16.00 hours via TEAMS link
Wednesday 19th July 2023 at 16.00 hours via TEAMS link
If you would like to join one of these sessions, please contact us on telephone 01633 238874 or by e-mail at Jackie.davies6@wales.nhs.uk
and we will arrange to send you a link for the session.
Contact Us
By e-mail with any comments at ABB_BABI@wales.nhs.uk
By telephone on 01633 238874 (leave a message for someone to contact you)
Contribute to any social media conversations via the Health Board’s Maternity Services page on Facebook