Maternity | Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Berkshire hospital maternity unit serves the area of Reading and West Berkshire, offering a comprehensive maternity service where almost 5,000 babies are born every year.

We aim to provide outstanding, personalised care for all women and their families, from our dedicated team of midwives, obstetric doctors and the wider professional team, throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

We encourage women with uncomplicated pregnancies to have their babies at home, with our specialist homebirth team, or on our home-from-home Rushey midwifery led unit. However it is your choice where to give birth. Our delivery suite offers care for women who require additional monitoring and obstetric and anaesthetic care, whilst providing comfortable, en-suite birth rooms and equipment to facilitate active labour and birth.

Finding Us

We have multiple clinics and services throughout our hospital:

Antenatal clinic for expectant mothers. Located on level 2 of the maternity block.
Day assessment unit antenatal and some postnatal women requiring investigation and/or monitoring. Located on level 3 of the maternity block.
Delivery suite for women requiring additional medical care in labour. Located on level 3 of the maternity block
Level 4 maternity (March & Iffley ward) for antenatal and postnatal women, high care obstetrics, transitional care babies. Located on level 4 of the maternity block.
Rushey midwife led unit for women with healthy pregnancies. Located on level 6 of the maternity block.
Homebirth service a specialist team of midwives dedicated to providing continuity of midwifery care throughout pregnancy for women opting for homebirth and a 24/7 on-call homebirth service across Reading and West Berkshire.

Clinical administration team: 0118 322 8964.
To arrange your first 'booking appointment' with your community midwife: 0118 322 8964 and select option 1.
To contact your named community midwife please use the mobile phone number given to you at your booking appointment. If you are unable to contact your community midwife please leave a message on 0118 322 8059.
If you think you are in labour call our triage line: 0118 322 7304.
For specific ward and clinic contact numbers, please visit the pages listed.

To access the maternity unit you can either park in the multi-storey car park in Craven road and either walk along Craven road to the maternity unit or exit the car park on level 2 and follow signs to the maternity unit inside the hospital. The entrance to the antenatal clinic is through maternity reception, which is to the right of the lifts opposite the league of friends shop. There is also kerbside parking around the hospital site which can be paid for via RingGo app or the parking meters.

To find more information about how to get to the Royal Berkshire hospital go to our locations.

Booking with Us

If you can't see the above form, please use this booking link

Antenatal services

Antenatal Services

Labour and birth

Postnatal services

Leaflets/Resources

Leaflets Catalogue