Pregnancy care and birth place 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
- Yeovil Hospital labour ward from noon on 21 April – Yeovil Hospital maternity and neonatal services opening updates
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
Musgrove Park Hospital
Self-referral for Somerset
Somerset emergency triage: 01823 343985
Virtual tours of the Musgrove maternity and neonatal unit.
Yeovil Hospital
Self-referral for Somerset
Somerset emergency triage: 01823 343985
Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester
Self-referral for Dorset County Hospital
Dorset maternity advice line: 0300 369 0388
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.