NHS Borders Maternity Services

07/09/2026

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03/09/2026

August Babies 👨‍🍼👩‍🍼

Our maternity team welcomed 64 new babies to the Borders in August! 👶

We're incredibly proud of the care, expertise and support they provide to local families every day.

Here's a snapshot of activity across our Maternity Department during the past month.

25/08/2026

Good Morning,
We are wondering if their are any families who still have blood pressure machine that they recieved while under our care. If you think you still have a machine we would really appreciate it if it could be returned to Pregnancy Assessment Unit
Many Thanks from the Maternity Team

03/07/2026

Today is National Bereaved Parents Day
We are thinking if everyone who has lost a little one 💜

25/06/2026

One of our amazing trained maternity care assistants who look women and their families 🤩🥰

25/06/2026

Here are some of our lovely midwifery team, who work hard everyday to provide good care
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25/06/2026

Here are some of our team from Borders General Hospital telling us what its like to work within the maternity unit

25/06/2026

Health Improvement Scotland have carried out an unannounced inspection to Borders General Hospital, NHS Borders on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 March 2026 using our safe delivery of care methodology. They inspected the following areas

- Ward 16- combined antenatal, postnatal ward and triage area
- Labour Ward

During the inspection they
- inspected the ward and hospital environment
- observed staff practice and interactions with women and birthing people, such as during meal-times
- spoke with women, birthing people, visitors and ward staff and
- accessed women and birthing peoples health records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.

We are really proud to publish the report in the the link below. Thank you to the Maternity Department for all your hard work

Borders General Hospital maternity safe delivery of care inspection report: June 2026 Posted on: 25 June 2026 Document TypeInspection reportsMaternity units Summary We carried out an unannounced inspection to Borders General Hospital, NHS Borders on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 March 2026 using our safe...

14/06/2026

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11/06/2026

Breastfeeding Friendly Early Years Scheme
We are extremely proud that all our Early Years Centres in the Scottish Borders are already part of the Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland scheme we are now working with our Early year’s hubs and nurseries. The vision is for Scotland to become a breastfeeding friendly society, valuing breastfeeding and supporting mothers and babies to breastfeed wherever and whenever they wish. The Breastfeeding Friendly Early Years scheme was created to support nurseries and early year settings to:
• promote a breastfeeding friendly environment
• support families and colleagues who breastfeed
• learn more about the benefits of breastfeeding
We also encourage settings to:
• adopt a Breastfeeding and Returning to Work policy to assure pregnant and
• breastfeeding employees that should they wish to; they will be supported to continue
• breastfeeding on return to work.
• be aware of local services where breastfeeding families can access support and
• information and to signpost families to this support if desired.