Issue 15
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Welcome to issue 15
of Connect
In this issue...
SUHT in the news
2
No more heartache for Alvin
3
Anthony’s super hip
4
Service improvement: a
patient’s perspective
5
Getting to know…
Jennison Baskerville
6
Golden Stethoscope
7
The Fundraising Connection 8
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Southern Daily Echo, Romsey Advertiser, Lymington Times and local radio.
New Forest Birth Centre
opened its doors on Monday
1 September, providing local
women with a safe home-from-
home environment in which to
have their babies.
The modern centre at Ashurst
Hospital on the edge of the New
Forest represents a major step
forward in the quality of local birth
centre provision.
Equipped with two birthing pools
and seven postnatal beds, it will also
have facilities for women to drop
in for breast-feeding support and
antenatal education.
Plans for the centre were
developed with the help of midwives
and local families, following a
lengthy public consultation into the
future of maternity services across
Southampton.
New Forest Birth
Centre will be midwife-
led, with no doctors
on site – suitable for
women expecting a
straightforward birth
and not requiring an
epidural for pain