Worcester

Hereford

M50 Tewkesbury Community Hospital A424 A429

Hartpury Newent Stow-on-the-Wold Ross-on-Wye A417 A40 A40 Cheltenham Royal Hospital General Hospital A40 A436 A417

Cinderford A40 M5 Abergavenny Monmouth A429 Coleford Health Centre A417

Stroud and General Hospital District Hospital Lydney A48 Cirencester Hospital

A433

Chepstow Wotton-under-Edge M5

M48 A419 M4 Thornbury A420 Newport A429 M4

M49 Swindon

M4 Yate M4

Southmead Hospital M4 A350 A4 Cossham M32 Hospital A46 Chippenham M5 Chippenham Birthing Unit St Michael's Hospital Bristol A4

Clevedon Nailsea A38 A4 Royal United Hospital A37 Primary placement areas A346 Bath Gloucestershire Weston-super-Mare Chew Magna

Weston Trowbridge North Bristol General Paulton Birthing Unit Hospital M5 Birthing Unit Trowbridge University Hospitals Bristol A36

A38 Bath and North East Somerset

Swindon and Wiltshire Westbury Burnham-on-Sea Services in Chippenham are accessed Frome by Bath and Swindon zoned students A361 Wells Warminster

Glastonbury

M5 Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences Midwifery placement map

www.uwe.ac.uk/subjects/nursing Midwifery placements supporting information Midwifery care is offered in a variety of settings across the region University Hospitals Bristol and during the Midwifery course there will be experiences of Maternity services for South Bristol are managed by University clinical placements in different areas. Hospitals Bristol (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust. The Directorate Placement types may include: of Women and Children’s services is based at St Michael’s Hospital • Community based teams offering care to women at community in Bristol. based antenatal clinics or in their own home. Placements may include: • Birth unit experience. • Community experience based with teams covering Nailsea, • Antenatal clinics including day assessment facilities and those Clevedon, Weston-Super-Mare and Bristol. offering foetal medicine appointments. • Birth Unit experience at either: • Other maternity services including antenatal and postnatal • Midwifery Led Unit at St Michael’s Hospital. inpatient care, 24 hour assessment units, delivery suites for • Ashcombe Birth Centre in Weston-super-Mare. complex care needs and neonatal intensive care units (NICU) – depending on the area of the placement. • Antenatal clinics and other maternity services at St Michael’s Hospital.

Gloucestershire Swindon and Wiltshire Maternity services in Gloucestershire are managed by Swindon’s maternity services are managed by Great Western Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Women Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at Great Western Hospital (GWH) and Children’s Division is based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Swindon. in Gloucester. Placements may include: Placements may include: • Community experience based with teams covering Swindon, • Community experience based with teams covering Gloucester, Westbury and Warminster. Cheltenham, North Cotswolds, , Coleford and Stroud. • Birth Unit experience at either: • Birth Unit experience at: • The White Horse Birth Centre based at GWH. • Stroud maternity birth unit • Trowbridge or Chippenham Birth Centres • Aveta Birth Centre, Cheltenham General Hospital. • Antenatal clinics and other maternity services clinics at GWH. • Women’s Centre at Gloucester • Antenatal clinics at either Gloucester Women’s Centre or Bath and North East Somerset Cheltenham St Paul’s Wing Maternity services for Bath are managed by Royal United • Other maternity services at Gloucester Women’s Centre. Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. The Women and Children’s Division is based at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath.

North Bristol Placements may include: Maternity services for North Bristol are managed by North Bristol • Community experience based with teams covering Wiltshire, NHS Trust. The Directorate of Women and Children’s services is Bath and North East Somerset and Somerset. based at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. • Integrated community care (antenatal, intrapartum including Placements may include: home birth and postnatal) and birthing unit experience is offered by a team of midwives at either: • Community experience based with teams covering Thornbury, Yate and Wotton-Under-Edge. • Trowbridge Birthing Centre. • Birth Unit experience at: • Chippenham Birth Centre. • Cossham Birth Centre. • Frome Birth Centre. • Mendip Birth Centre. • Paulton Birth Centre (which includes Shepton Mallet for antenatal and postnatal care). • Antenatal clinics and other maternity services at Southmead Hospital. • Antenatal clinics and other maternity services at the RUH.

For further information: Professional Practice Office, UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY Telephone +44 (0)117 32 81152 E-mail [email protected] www.uwe.ac.uk/students/practicesupportnet