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LGBTQ+ Perinatal care

How do you know you are safe with Leicester Hospital’s Maternity Services?

  • We are planning to train staff in LGBTQ+ healthcare needs
  • We are writing staff guidelines to help support personalised care for our trans and non-binary community
  • We are changing our signs and posters to make them inclusive
  • We are adding new sections to your handheld notes so that we can talk about your needs
  • We will be asking you what your pronouns are, and you may see staff members wearing badges that tell you theirs
  • We are part of the Rainbow Badge scheme. This is a scheme that gives staff a way to show that Leicester Hospitals give open, non-judgemental and inclusive care for people and their families, who identify as LGBTQ+

Useful resources

Books:

  • Where is the mother? Trevor MacDonald
  • Supporting Queer Birth AJ Silver
  • The Natural Mother of the Child Krys Malcolm Belc
  • Small: on motherhoods Claire Lynch
  • Pregnant and Butch AK Summers
  • Queer Conception Kristin L. Kali
  • Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories Sara Graefe

Podcasts:

Social media:

Articles / Studies:

Films / TV:

Emergency signposting:

  • LGBTQ+ Staff Network – we can support, signpost, and help you.

Chair emails: jennie.morris@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

Eleanor.Nicholl@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

Their hours vary.

Contact via phone (10:00-22:00), 0800 0119 100

Email: hello@switchboard.lgbt

Text chat on the website (from 17:30)

Telephone support during the day and weekends 0345 3 30 30 30

Self referral LGBT Foundation Wellbeing Services

Telephone support for LGBT+ domestic abuse and hate crime 0800 999 5428

Email contacts help@galop.org.uk

Local centre for support, guidance, and socialising. 0116 254 7412.

  • Zoteria – App found on app store, run by Vodafone.

To report hate crime and access relevant support.

If you have any feedback about this page please contact:

Dalvir Kandola (Dalvir.Kandola@uhl-tr.nhs.uk), Consultant Midwife Lead for Inclusivity or Jennie Morris (Jennie.Morris@uhl-tr.nhs.uk), Midwife co-ordinator and LGBTQ+ staff network chair

For further support or to provide feedback about Leicester Hospitals services, please use the following links:

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Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust runs a confidential secure text messaging service for parents of children aged 0-19 years called Chat Health. The service operates Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm, excluding bank holidays. All texts will be responded to by a public health nurse (health visitor/school nurse) within 24 hours. Outside of the service working hours, you’ll receive a message back to inform you that your text will be responded to once the line reopens.

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Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust runs the Healthy Together Helpline for parents and carers in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The Helpline’s qualified health and administrative professionals offer easy to access, safe and free advice, support and signposting. Calls are answered from 9am – 4.30pm on weekdays, excluding bank holidays. Calls are charged at the same rate as calling a standard landline number.

Should you require urgent health advice in the meantime, please contact your GP, visit an NHS walk-in centre or call NHS 111. For emergencies, dial 999 or visit A&E.

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Page last reviewed: 09-08-2024

Next review due: 09-08-2027

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