Apart from a few exceptions, visiting remains suspended at University Hospital, Coventry, and The Hospital of St Cross, Rugby. We ask that you adhere to these guidelines and continue to ensure the safety of yourselves and your loved ones.
Maternity
One birth partner can attend all antenatal appointments at both our sites. Birth partners should be from the same household or support bubble and the same person throughout the pregnancy, labour and postnatal period. If you have had a Covid-19 Lateral Flow Test at home, we may ask you for the results on the day you attend. Partners will be asked to wait in the Women and Children's entrance foyer to help maintain social distancing. They will be called when mums-to-be are invited in for their scan. Scan photos can only be purchased by contactless payment at present. One birthing partner is able to visit their loved one on Wards 24 (antenatal) and Ward 25 (postnatal) at University Hospital, Coventry. Birthing partners are able to book their visiting slot between 11am and 8pm, seven days a week, using our online booking system available here.
Compassionate grounds
Visiting may also be allowed on compassionate grounds (for seriously ill patients or those receiving end-of-life care). For more information click here.
Paediatric
One visitor is also allowed for each child in the Paediatric wards. Click here to read what to expect on your visit and the precautions we are taking to keep everyone safe.
Friends and family are encouraged to keep in touch with inpatient relatives, who can make free phone calls to landlines from their hospital beds (calls to mobile phones will be charged). Inpatients can video call their friends and family on our Trust iPads through our free-to-use Patient Connect service. You can find out more about this by clicking here. In addition, you can send your loved ones in hospital a message through our Thinking of You service. Thank you for your ongoing support and co-operation. These measures are necessary to help us to further protect our patients, staff and visitors.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON BLOOD TESTING DUE TO COVID-19
If you are experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, e.g. fever, loss of taste or continuous new cough, please DO NOT attend for a blood test.
Click on the map for information about phlebotomy clinics in Coventry. You can book an appointment online at the locations in red.
Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test. Click on the ‘Book Online’ button above. Booking an appointment helps patients, their carers and family members to plan their hospital visit better, helping to reduce clinic waiting times and enabling patients to be seen much more quickly.
Location: Outpatients Department, on the ground floor. Opening hours: 8am-4.45pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).
Children under 16 years old will need to book online here.
Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test, click on the ‘Book Online’ button above. Patients from Rugby and the surrounding areas are able to access the Friends Blood Taking Unit at the Hospital of St Cross.
Referrals for blood tests can be from GP's, practice nurses or from hospital consultants. Patients are also able to leave other samples, such as urine, which have been collected at home, at the hospital's Pathology Reception.
Location: Near Brookfield House, just off North Road - map here. Opening hours: The blood taking clinic sessions for adults and children are listed below:
Monday -Friday 7am-4:45pm Appointment only
Wednesday Evening 5pm-7pm Suspended due to COVID
Saturday Morning 7am-10pm Suspended due to COVID
April 2020 NEW - This Clinic is now by appointment. Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test. Click on the ‘Book Online’ button above.
Address: Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry CV1 4FS Location: Access is via the main doors, the Phlebotomy team are in Area A. Opening hours: Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). 8am–4.45pm
Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT)
Specialist Tests - There are a small number of specialist tests where blood needs to be taken on a hospital site as the sample must be transferred to the laboratory rapidly for the test to be undertaken. Click here for a list of these specialist tests and to find out more.