Blackburn Birthing Centre, Blackburn.Blackburn Birthing Centre in Blackburn is a Hospital specialising in the provision of services relating to maternity and midwifery services and services for everyone. The last inspection date here was 9th July 2014 Contact Details:
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30th April 2014 - During a routine inspection
![]() Blackburn Birthing Centre is one of seven hospitals and care centres that form East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. This location provides maternity services only. It is a free-standing birth centre where women for whom problems are not anticipated can give birth to their babies in a relaxed ‘home-from-home’ atmosphere. Although registered with CQC with the name Blackburn Birthing Centre it is known locally as Blackburn Birth Centre, so will be referred to in this way in the rest of the report.
The unit comprises four delivery rooms and a four-bed post-natal bay to allow mothers and babies to remain for a period after delivery. There are approximately 950 babies born here each year.
We carried out a comprehensive inspection because East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust had been flagged as high risk on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ‘intelligent monitoring’ system (which looks at a wide range of data, including patient and staff surveys, hospital performance information, and the views of the public and local partner organisations). The inspection took place on 30 April 2014.
Overall, this birth centre was providing a good service. We rated it as ‘good’ for providing effective care, caring for patients, being responsive to patients’ needs and being well-led. However, we found that improvements were required in providing safe care.
Our key findings were as follows:
We saw several areas of outstanding practice, including:
However, there were also areas of poor practice where the trust needs to make improvements:
Importantly, the trust must:
In addition the trust should:
Professor Sir Mike Richards
Chief Inspector of Hospitals
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