MIDWIVES and doctors at Epsom Hospital are celebrating after the Department of Health awarded the maternity ward £318,000.
The grant will fund a new home-from-home, midwife-led birth centre complete with three large birthing pools and comfortable sofas – all housed in three separate, custom-made rooms.
Sally Sivas, head of midwifery, said: "We are absolutely overjoyed to have been given this generous funding. It is wonderful news for local parents-to-be and it will help us to further improve the care we provide.
"Our maternity teams work hard to provide the best possible care to parents-to-be and we've invested heavily in recent years to improve our maternity services, from the quality of the environment to the number of midwives."
During 2011/12, Epsom Hospital delivered 1,995 babies.
