The Acute Neonatal Transport Service ( ANTS) covers the East
of England Strategic Health Authority area, providing services to a
population of over 5 million people and 18 hospitals providing
neonatal intensive care.
The service has two main elements :
1. Emergency Bed Service ( neonatal and inutero
beds)
2. Acute Neonatal Transport Team ( undertaking
emargency and single clinician transfers for the East of England
population )
The ANTS Team is a dedicated transfer service, which co-ordinates
and aims to find cots for newborn babies, according to clinical
need and to transport them safely from the referring unit to the
receiving unit.
It also collates and provides in utero bed status information to
delivery suites. This is updated twice a day.
Geographical area:
Our area is large - extending from the south coast to North
Norfolk. Our headquarters are at Addenbrooke's Hospital in
Cambridge, which is well placed to serve this area.
EMERGENCY TRANSFERS
If you are a healthcare provider wanting to use the
service, please ring the Emergency Bed
Co-ordinator on 01223 274274
Documents
ANTS Policy Statement
Referral Information
Single Clinician Transfer
Criteria