Cornwall’s Maternity Services witnessed a different type of birth with the eagerly anticipated relocation of the Wheal Fortune unit. 

The move of the Royal Cornwall Hospital’s postnatal ward is the first phase of the Princess Alexandra wing refurbishments, in order to make room for the development of greatly enhanced neonatal care facilities and a new midwife-led birthing suite, which will open in 2017.  

Based in the former Wheal Agar ward to the rear of the maternity wing, Wheal Fortune now features a new dayroom/discharge lounge with views out onto a garden area, new shower facilities, a new ward kitchen, a purpose-built baby-care room, as well as five newly refurbished four bedded bays and six side rooms.