Delivery Suite

Delivery Suite

 Midwifery-led and consultant-led birthing care

Delivery Suite

A heavily pregnant female is seated on a large birthing ball, leaning on a ward beds while chatting and smiling to maternity team members - one crouched acros the bed in front of her and one stood behind her

Contact our Delivery Suite

Ward phone: To speak to the labour ward team, call 01483 464 133 or 01483 571 122, ext 4699.

Location: Level G, West Wing, Royal Surrey  NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Guildford.

Matron: Katy Lucas.

About our Delivery Suite

Our Labour Ward provides a safe, supportive environment for people to birth in, whether they are planning a midwifery-led or consultant-led birth. We are committed to providing expert, compassionate care that respects your birth preferences while ensuring the safety and wellbeing of you and your baby.

Our services:

  • Two midwifery-led birthing rooms both offering a pool and en-suite bathroom. These rooms both have a birthing couch instead of a bed.
  • Eight consultant-led birthing rooms equipped with beds that support active birthing positions and enhanced monitoring facilities where required .All of these rooms have en-suite bathroom facilities.
  • One birthing pool is available in the consultant-led unit for use in labour. This room is for those who have been recommended to have  additional monitoring or obstetric care. This room has an en-suite bathroom.
  • Flexible, personalised care that adapts to your needs throughout labour.
  • Floor mats, birthing balls and peanut balls are available in all rooms, along with a limited supply of fairy lights, speakers and battery candles.
  • You’re welcome to bring anything that will help create the right environment for you — please just bear in mind that naked flames aren't permitted. Have a chat with your midwife if you'd like any guidance.

Find out more about our maternity wards. 

Your care team

We have a dedicated team of experienced healthcare professionals, including obstetricians, midwives, maternity support workers, anaesthetists, a dedicated theatre team and neonatal specialists, with input from other services as required.

Working collaboratively, we provide compassionate, round-the-clock care focused on supporting your birth experience and ensuring the health and wellbeing of you and your baby.

Visitor Guidelines

  • One birth partner and one support person are welcome to support you  whilst you are on the labour ward at any time during labour and birth. These must be the same two people throughout — no swapping. Your birth partner will be given a wristband to wear so they are easily identifiable. 
  • Any person on labour ward requiring 1:1 care not related to labour or birth will only be permitted to have one dedicated person with them.   
  • There are no other visitors permitted at any time in the Labour Ward, including your own children.
  • Once you are transferred to the postnatal ward, only your birth partner may stay with you. Your support person can visit during visiting times on the ward.
  • Read and follow our infection control guidelines (see below).

Help keep our patients safe and well

Please don’t visit if you have:

  • Any signs of infection.
  • Had diarrhoea, vomiting or symptoms of flu in the last 48 hours.

While visiting a patient, please:

  • Do not bring flowers — these are not allowed on our wards.
  • Use the public toilets (not the ones on the wards – they are for patients only).
  • Do not touch patient’s wounds bandages/dressings or medical equipment.
  • Do not sit or lay in patient beds; chairs are provided for partners to rest in.

Before you visit, please read and follow our infection control information guidelines, which help protect our patients from germs.

Getting here

Online map

You can use our online map to navigate around our site. Head to the West Wing, where you will find stairs and lifts to our ward floors A, B, F and G.

What Three Words

flap.lime.erase – this will take you to the West Wing lift/stairs lobby. 

Directions from the hospital main entrance

  • Walk straight ahead past the reception desk on your right.
  • Continue past M&S on your left until the corridor becomes a T-junction.
  • Look for the hospital map on the wall directly in front of you (this can help if you get lost).

Head to the West Wing:

  • Turn left towards the West Wing.
  • Walk along the corridor, continuing past the Pharmacy on your right, until you come to Outpatients 5.
  • Turn right, taking the corridor opposite Outpatients 5.
  • Walk past the Chapel on your right, and you will immediately reach the stairwell/lift lobby also on your right.

To reach Level G

  • Take either the lift or the stairs to level G (top floor).

Final step: 

  • Follow the ward signs on level G to reach the Delivery Suite.

Getting to Royal Surrey and Parking

For information about getting to our site and parking, visit the Getting to Royal Surrey County Hospital page.

Questions or concerns

First point of contact: Speak to the ward nurse in charge – we want patients to feel informed and comfortable during their stay.

If you still have questions: Ask to speak with the ward matron.

Concerned about a change or deterioration in a patient’s condition? Alongside speaking to ward staff, you can also contact the Critical Care Outreach Team through Call 4 Concern.

Complaints and support: Contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) for confidential, impartial advice and support.