Tamworth Base Hospital

Tamworth Base Hospital is located at Dean St, North Tamworth NSW 2340. Their primary focus on maternity care is to ensure a collaborative process where women and their families remain at the centre and are actively involved in all decisions about the pregnancy, birth, and after your baby is born. The hospital offers a comprehensive option of care. They have a Midwifery care antenatal clinic for women with uncomplicated pregnancies. For others who have complicated pregnancies, Tamworth also has Specialist Care. Also, if you choose to receive a continuity of care throughout your pregnancy, the hospital offers TGMP or Tamworth Midwifery Group Practice.

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Does Tamworth Base Hospital have visiting private midwives?

NO

Does Tamworth Base Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?

UNKNOWN

Does Tamworth Base Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?

YES

Hospital Facilities

Antenatal Beds

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Birthing Rooms

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Postnatal Beds

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Special Care Nursery Beds

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Neonatal Intensive Care Beds

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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 Tamworth Base Hospital have a birth centre?

Birth Suite Tour Video

Coming soon

What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?

Baby-friendly accredited?

Tamworth Base Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.

Tamworth Base Hospital Statistics

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How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. 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. Labour artificially sped up refers to labours starting spontaneously but are artificially sped up with medication or breaking the bag of water.

Unfortunately, national statistics do not separate spontaneous labour and labour artificially sped up.  So the Australian national statistics combine these two together as spontaneous labour.

Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to artificially 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.

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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 caesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2020 the caesarean birth rate in the NSW maternity hospitals 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.

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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 Australia’s Mothers and Babies by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and NSW Mothers and Babies by the NSW Ministry of Health.

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Date page published 1st May 2022