Your pregnancy care and birth choices

Families continuing care with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust will be able to choose from:

• Home birth
• Bracken Birthing Centre at Musgrove Park Hospital
• Musgrove Park Hospital labour ward

Alternatively, women and pregnant people will be able to choose between Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, RUH Bath and Salisbury District Hospital.

If you wish to have your baby at another hospital, please use the referral forms below. If you are already under our care but would like to move your birth to a different hospital, please discuss this with your midwife and we will be able to support you with this.

Self-referral forms by location

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Self-referral for Somerset
Somerset emergency triage: 01823 343985

Our colleagues have produced some virtual tours of the Musgrove maternity and neonatal unit.

Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester

Self-referral for Dorset County Hospital
Dorset maternity advice line: 0300 369 0388

Colleagues at Dorset County Hospital have produced a virtual tour of their maternity unit.

Royal United Hospital (RUH), Bath

Self-referral for Royal United Hospital
RUH triage: 01225 826454

For more information on the services provided at the RUH, visit their website which includes a virtual tour of their birthing centre.

Salisbury District Hospital

Self-referral for Salisbury District Hospital
Salisbury triage: 01722 425185
If you are over 20 weeks and wanting to transfer your care, please call the triage line.

Colleagues at Salisbury have produced a virtual tour of their maternity unit.