Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital

Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital offers excellence in the care of women and their babies through a highly specialised team of obstetricians, paediatricians and midwives.

We offer a full range of maternity/obstetric services from midwifery-led care to complex high risk care. The hospital is a tertiary referral maternity unit with a nationally renowned centre for fetal and maternal medicine, one of the largest neonatal intensive care units in the country and a labour ward with two fully equipped operating theatres and high dependency care facilities.

As well as providing a maternity service for local women, we receive referrals from around the country for women with very complicated pregnancies. The service includes genetic counselling, specialist clinics for various fetal conditions and medical obstetric clinics for women with conditions complicated by pregnancy. Physicians and maternal medicine specialists as well as many allied specialists staff the obstetric medicine service.

The perinatal service includes tertiary fetal medicine, obstetric medicine, prematurity clinic, obstetric anaesthesia and tertiary neonatology. All antenatal referrals for fetal and maternal problems are seen within the centre for fetal and maternal medicine. There is a one-stop service for all fetal problems.

We have a midwifery-led birth centre that has won two national awards for its homely environment, for women with uncomplicated pregnancies who choose natural childbirth.

The one-to-one midwifery caseload service provides additional emotional and social support to vulnerable women and disadvantaged groups living in the local area as well as a home birth service for women with uncomplicated pregnancies.

We provide antenatal and postnatal community care via four teams of community midwives covering our catchment area. The geographical areas covered correspond to the local PCT area: W3, W4, W6, W12, part of W5 and part of W14.

Priority is given to women in the local area and those at high risk requiring input from specialist teams.

Consultants

Director of midwifery
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent

Head of midwifery
Pippa Nightingale

Location
Antenatal clinic, ground floor

Contacts
Antenatal clinic
Tel: 020 3313 3926 (reception)
Tel: 020 3313 3526 (bookings)

Centre for fetal care
Tel: 020 3313 3998

Day assessment unit (Lewis suite)
Tel: 020 3313 5195

Ultrasound
Tel: 020 3313 3916

Birth centre
Tel: 020 3313 1140

Delivery suite
Tel: 020 3313 3900/5157

Post-natal ward (Edith Dare)
Tel: 020 3313 5140

Private patients
Tel: 020 3313 3925

Parking for maternity patients
If you are a maternity patient at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, you can purchase a day pass for the car park to use on the day you come to hospital to have your baby. This can only be used in car parking spaces designated for staff permit holders only. It cannot be used in the general pay and display area. For more information, please enquire at the main reception at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital.