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

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

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.