I gave birth there in 2011, and it was awful. I wish now that I'd made a formal complaint.
I arrived there bleeding quite heavily, but there was nowhere for me to sit and no rooms for me to be examined in, so ended up standing, leaning against a wall in the corridor for about an hour. Was supposed to be in the nice new birthing centre downstairs, but because of the bleeding I wasn't allowed to be considered to go there. In the end, DH was going mental that there was nowhere for me to lie down, so went off to the birthing centre to ask if I could just rest there until a room became available on the normal ward.
Whilst he was gone, one of the nurses came to get me and took me into one of the rooms, hooked me up to a machine to listen to the heartbeat, and bluntly told me that there was no longer a heartbeat! I'd had a midwife appointment just the day before and all was fine, so I was in total shock, all alone, utterly bewildered. The bitch nurse displayed not an ounce of compassion, didn't console me, nothing. Then about 10 min later she tried a different machine, and found a heartbeat! No apology, nothing, just 'oh, it was just the machine'. Unsurpringly my blood pressure went through the roof, and had to spend my labour hooked up to machines and monitors the whole time. DH hadn't been told where I'd gone, and spent ages trying to find the room I was in.
I'm convinced that all of this happening at the start, contributed to my labour pretty much stalling/failing to progress - I think my body went into shut down, and I hardly dilated, waters had to be broken artificially, then DD'S heart beat dropped, resulting in an emergency section. The ONLY good thing - apart from DD being delivered fine, obviously! - is that the surgeon and staff did a bloody great job of my section - the scar is tiny and hardly noticeable at all.
The aftercare was non existent and the ward was totally grim. I was struggling to look after DD after having the section, and couldn't wait to get out of there and go home.