Maternity locations
We provide most of your pregnancy care with a community midwife at one of our maternity hubs. The birth centres and labour wards are at Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital.
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Specialist maternity teams
We have specialist midwifery teams and clinics for patients who require extra care as part of their pregnancy journey. Your midwife will refer you to the team or clinic if you need it. You may have appointments with this team in addition to your regular midwife, or they may take over your antenatal care.
Our team care for bereaved families that have suffered a pregnancy loss or neonatal death over 16 weeks gestation. We provide support from the moment the loss has been discovered until as long as the families feel they need us postnatally. This can be in the way of home visits, phone calls, or assisting with funeral arrangements and appointments.
Frimley Park Hospital
Hannah Hawkett, Specialist Bereavement Midwife
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Wexham Park Hospital
Louise Hallisey
Birth Choices clinic provides information to pregnant women and their partners, discussing different options for how and where to give birth.
This can be useful if you have had a previous complicated or traumatic birth experience, or for women who prefer to birth in a certain way. The clinic offers personalised, evidence-based discussions to help people make informed decisions that meet their needs, preferences, and values.
Appointments are available with a consultant midwife in person or over the phone.
Breech clinic is for pregnant women when the baby is in a breech position (bottom-down) from 34 weeks of pregnancy.
The clinic provides information, counselling, and options for birth including:
- Moxibustion (a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves burning a herb called moxa over a specific acupuncture point on the little toe)
- External Cephalic Version (ECV), a procedure to turn the baby to a head-down position.
The clinic is led by experienced midwives who work with obstetricians to support women to make informed decisions about their pregnancy.
The crystal team is a team of community midwives who provide enhanced care to those women who are found to have extra needs or vulnerabilities.
Examples of these needs or vulnerabilities are:
- Mental health issues that require support such as; severe anxiety or depression, bipolar diagnosis, personality disorders, self-harming, suicide attempts, psychosis
- Learning disabilities
- Having children under social services plans such as child protection
- Teenage pregnancy
- Recent substance misuse
- And any other issues that require more time at antenatal appointments and more frequent appointments
Crystal team midwives each see a smaller number of women than other midwives so that they have more time to spend with each woman and family. They also attend meetings for the family, for example to arrange social care.
Catchment area: all of the Wexham Park Hospital area including Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead
Frimley Park Hospital
FGM clinic
We offer antenatal care to women wishing to homebirth from any point in pregnancy, which could be from your initial booking, or at the point you decide to transfer for a homebirth. We hold local clinics for appointments up to 34 weeks, with your 36 week appointment (including your homebirth assessment) onwards provided within your home.
We attend to you in labour at the point you feel you would like support or assessment.
We provide your postnatal care at home, including your Newborn Initial Paediatric Examination (NIPE) and Newborn Bloodspot Screening. Your baby's hearing screening will be booked within local clinics run by hearing screening colleagues. We aim to book your discharge appointment with your named midwife for continuity.
We hold a 'Homebirth Huddle' on the 1st Thursday of every month in the Antenatal Clinic at Frimley Park Hospital (subject to change) where you can meet the team, alongside other pregnant women and those who have had their care with us.
You can find out more about us via our Instagram page @homebirth.fph or by emailing us at fhft.
Pelvic health team
The perinatal mental health team provide support to women and their families during and after pregnancy. They run mental health antenatal clinics and assist in consultant antenatal clinics.
They make sure psychological birth care plans are written in time and are accessible to staff when patients attend hospital.
They also provide support and training to midwives, doctors, student midwives and other maternity staff.
This antenatal clinic is for women with an increased chance of preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks). The clinic offers monitoring, counselling, and treatment if required (such as cervical cerclage or progesterone therapy) to reduce the chance of preterm birth and improve birth experiences.
The clinics are lead by an obstetrician.
Dedicated Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisors work across Frimley Park and Wexham Park hospitals, offering tailored support from the first midwifery appointment.
They provide behavioural counselling paired with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) — evidence-based help to quit smoking during pregnancy.
- The service (counselling + NRT) is completely free and available throughout pregnancy — helping to boost your chances of long-term success
- Support is offered in your maternity clinic — your midwife will refer you at your first appointment. It can also be accessed if you're admitted to hospital — midwives or clinicians can refer you.
- In-house support is part of the Saving Babies’ Lives agenda — helping to reduce risks such as preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth.
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Support is non-judgemental, personalised, and fully integrated with your maternity care team.
Contact us
consultant midwives
senior leadership team
Maternity and Neonatal Voice Partnership - MNVP
Patient Advice and Liaison Service - PALS