
Hobart Private Hospital is located at Collins Street, Cnr Argyle St, Hobart TAS 7000. They have a range of complimentary classes for mothers and partners. You’ll meet the midwives who will care for you when you have your baby. Parenting and breastfeeding education is available in different sessions.
The Hobart Private Hospital’s birth suites have a private ensuite and K2 foetal monitoring system and a range of active birth accessories to choose from, including beanbags, mirrors and birth stools. They offer a variety of pharmaceutical and natural pain-relief options for labour, and you can have your partner with you or one support person inside. You can take photographs at any time. However, video cameras are not allowed in the Birth Unit or operating theatre until after delivery.
The maternity suites are spacious and comfortable, ensuring an enjoyable stay. Your room includes a flat-screen TV, telephone and a small fridge. Your environment is a calm place to enjoy those precious early days with bub. Partners may stay overnight if staying in a double bed private room or on a single bed in some of the smaller rooms. They also have a Special Care Nursery that provides specialised care for premature babies over 34 weeks and full-term babies needing a little extra care and attention.
Hospital Address
Collins Street, Cnr Argyle St, Hobart TAS 7000
03 6214 3000
Website Hobart Private Hospital – Maternity
Hobart Private Hospital Map
Hobart Private Hospital Services

Does Hobart Private Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO

Does Hobart Private Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN

Does Hobart Private Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?
YES
Hospital Facilities
Antenatal Beds
Birthing Rooms
Postnatal Beds
Special Care Nursery Beds
Neonatal Intensive Care Beds
Are there birth pools available for labour and birth?
Birth centres are designed to be a home away from home. A birth centre is a separate unit located away from the standard birth unit. Birth centres encompass a philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal, natural events in the life of a woman and her family.
Does Hobart Private Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
No video available
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?

Baby-friendly accredited?
Hobart Private Hospital is accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program. The hospital supports breastfeeding, and lactation specialist midwives are on-hand to ensure babies are feeding well before going home.
Hobart Private Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Tasmania. The following statistics are from Tasmania as a whole.

How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. In addition, if a woman has an induction of labour there is an increased chance of further interventions. In the above graph, spontaneous labour refers to labour that starts on its own. Furthermore, please note that Tasmania’s statistics did not tell us if spontaneous labour is artificially sped up with medication or breaking of the bag of water. Therefore, this graph’s spontaneous labour includes labours sped up by medical intervention.
Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to start labour:
- Artificial rupture of membranes
- Balloon catheter to open the cervix
- Prostaglandins placed in the vagina
- Synthetic oxytocin drug to start or speed up labour
No labour is when a woman has an elective (non-emergency) caesarean before labour starts.
There’s still no available data on How Labour Started in 2015 and 2020. Please contact us if you have access to the statistics for the missing years.

Since 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended countries keep the caesarean birth rate between 10–15% to ensure mortality rates are kept low for mothers and babies (WHO’s last statement update was April 2015). Since 1995 the cesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2010 the Cesarean birth rate in Tasmania was more than double the WHO recommendation.
A small number of breech babies are born vaginally. Instrumental births include forceps birth and vacuum extraction. The caesarean birth rate includes both elective (planned) and emergency (unplanned) caesarean births.

Please note that even though there is a dramatic increase in interventions in labour and caesarean birth – there is no change in the perinatal death rate.
PBB attained the data in the statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Photo Gallery
PBB has created this page to help you be informed about local maternity services. We’d love for you to send us photos of the hospital to include on this page. Send photos to our webmaster.
Date page published 9th October 2022
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