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St Mary's Birth Centre

NHS hospital Run by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Melton Mowbray

Address
Leicestershire County and Rutland Pct, Thorpe Road, Melton Mowbray, LE13 1SJ
Phone
0300 303 1573 (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust switchboard)
Directions
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Address from the Care Quality Commission; phone number from the NHS Organisation Data Service. Visiting times and parking differ between wards, so check with the hospital before you travel.

Waiting times

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust reports one set of waiting times for all its hospitals, including St Mary's Birth Centre. At the end of August 2026, half of its 114,889 patients waiting for planned treatment had waited less than 14.1 weeks, against 12.2 weeks across England.

SpecialtyMedian waitEngland medianWaiting
General surgery 12.5 wks 12.8 wks 6,387
Urology 7.5 wks 12.2 wks 3,587
Orthopaedics 23.9 wks 13.9 wks 11,858
Ear, nose and throat 18.8 wks 15.4 wks 7,128
Ophthalmology (eyes) 9.1 wks 10.4 wks 8,825
Oral surgery 20.4 wks 16.4 wks 6,796
Neurosurgery 18.4 wks 13.4 wks 160
Plastic surgery 16.9 wks 14.0 wks 1,238
Cardiothoracic surgery 8.5 wks 9.6 wks 487
General medicine 1.5 wks 10.2 wks 146
Gastroenterology 13.5 wks 11.0 wks 4,698
Cardiology (heart) 12.3 wks 11.9 wks 5,976
Dermatology (skin) 5.8 wks 10.5 wks 3,026
Respiratory medicine 10.3 wks 10.4 wks 2,278
Neurology 18.4 wks 13.2 wks 2,967
Rheumatology 17.2 wks 10.9 wks 3,891
Elderly medicine 9.6 wks 7.6 wks 554
Gynaecology 14.8 wks 14.2 wks 9,665
Other medical specialties 12.9 wks 10.7 wks 16,037
Other paediatric specialties 12.9 wks 12.3 wks 8,360
Other surgical specialties 15.0 wks 11.4 wks 7,459
Other services 12.1 wks 8.7 wks 3,366

More about waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Care Quality Commission rating

St Mary's Birth Centre: Good. Published 20 September 2023. Read the CQC report

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust overall: Requires improvement. Published 25 November 2022.

Some ratings are several years old; the date shows when it was published. Source: Care Quality Commission.

A&E

In September 2026, 62.1% of the 26,350 people who went to A&E at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust's departments were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours, against 74.4% across England. NHS England publishes this for the trust as a whole. A&E figures over the past year

In an emergency call 999. For urgent help that is not an emergency, use NHS 111.

Other NHS hospitals nearby

You can usually choose where to have planned NHS treatment. Hospitals run by other trusts, with each trust's median wait across all specialties:

HospitalDistanceTrust median wait
Grantham and District HospitalUnited Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 14.6 miles 13.0 wks
Ropewalk HouseNottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 17.6 miles 13.3 wks
Stamford & Rutland HospitalNorth West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust 18.7 miles 13.9 wks
Newark HospitalSherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 21.0 miles 12.4 wks

Straight-line distance. Waits differ a lot between specialties; search by treatment and postcode to compare the one you need.

Other hospitals run by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust