What is happening?
The NHS is looking at how to improve hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool.
Most of these services happen at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, on Crown Street in Toxteth, which means they are separate from other adult hospital services such as critical care, and other specialist teams. This can sometimes create issues and delays to care.
The NHS is committed to finding a long-term solution that will improve the quality and safety of these hospital gynaecology and maternity services, giving patients the best experience of care.
This website explains more about what the main challenges affecting these services are, why change is needed, and what steps are being taken to keep patient care safe for now.
As part of this process, the NHS published a Case for Change and held a six week public engagement (between 15 October and 26 November 2024), which asked people to share their views about the reasons for change presented in it, and to tell us about their own experiences of hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool.
That engagement period is now closed, and you can find the report on the engagement findings here.
If you would like to be kept up to date on how this work progresses, you can join our Virtual Reference Group and we will send you email updates.
Although these issues have been discussed in the past, this is a new process which will focus on addressing the problems as they stand today.
It’s important to stress that no decisions have been made about how services might look in the future.
Who is involved?
This work is being led by NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, the organisation that plans NHS care for our area, working in close partnership with:
- Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
- NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (which manages Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, Liverpool Women's Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital),
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
A number of other organisations are also closely involved, including Healthwatch Knowsley, Healthwatch Liverpool and Healthwatch Sefton.