Southend and Basildon Hospitals given thousands to improve maternity services

10:10am Sunday 27th January 2013 in Local News By Emma Thomas

Southend Hospital Southend Hospital

THOUSANDS of pounds have been handed to south Essex hospitals to improve maternity services.

Basildon Hospital has been given £19,977 to upgrade the current Forget-Me-Not bereavement suite to provide a private, safe, comfortable environment for parents suffering loss.

Southend Hospital will get £88,420 to pay for a Maternity Triage Service. This will give women support to make appropriate and safe choices for the birth of their baby by providing somewhere that a senior midwife can review and discuss care options as well as moving the early pregnancy unit to appropriate area.

The grants are part of a £25million cash pot from the Department of Health which will be shared between 100 hospitals.

The Forget-me-not group supports parents and families who have lost children.
One of the founders, Karla Cairns, 50, from Laindon, lost her daughter Grace-Ellen Cairns in 1992 at 23-and-a-half-weeks-old. She created a memorial garden at Pitsea Crematorium and the support group as well as the room at Basildon Hospital.

She said: “The hospital gave us what was a storage room originally, we set about fundraising and we opened it in 1995.

“It is in need of refurbishment and that money will be fantastic.”

Comments (3)

11:02am Sun 27 Jan 13

lottie31 says...

I think they should just train their staff. After i was left alone to give birth to my still-born daughter no nurses, drs or midwives at southend hospital in HDU i will not return there to have anymore children. i will opt for a home birth if i have anymore. The maternity at southend hospital is a disgrace. how many times do they need to fail a patient before something is done. We need a forget-me-not at southend as well. sorry kind of off topic but more needs to be done than spending money on doing things up.
I think they should just train their staff. After i was left alone to give birth to my still-born daughter no nurses, drs or midwives at southend hospital in HDU i will not return there to have anymore children. i will opt for a home birth if i have anymore. The maternity at southend hospital is a disgrace. how many times do they need to fail a patient before something is done. We need a forget-me-not at southend as well. sorry kind of off topic but more needs to be done than spending money on doing things up. lottie31

11:03am Sun 27 Jan 13

lottie31 says...

I think they should just train their staff. After i was left alone to give birth to my still-born daughter no nurses, drs or midwives at southend hospital in HDU i will not return there to have anymore children. i will opt for a home birth if i have anymore. The maternity at southend hospital is a disgrace. how many times do they need to fail a patient before something is done. We need a forget-me-not at southend as well. sorry kind of off topic but more needs to be done than spending money on doing things up.
I think they should just train their staff. After i was left alone to give birth to my still-born daughter no nurses, drs or midwives at southend hospital in HDU i will not return there to have anymore children. i will opt for a home birth if i have anymore. The maternity at southend hospital is a disgrace. how many times do they need to fail a patient before something is done. We need a forget-me-not at southend as well. sorry kind of off topic but more needs to be done than spending money on doing things up. lottie31

11:34am Sun 27 Jan 13

Nebs says...

Does this mean that in five years time we will need to spend a fortune building new reception classes for primary schools.
Does this mean that in five years time we will need to spend a fortune building new reception classes for primary schools. Nebs

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