St.Mary's Hospital
Praed Street
London
W2 1NY
Tel: 020 7886
6666
www.st-marys.nhs.uk
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St Mary's Hospital runs as a Level 3 Unit. This means that care is
provided for babies born at less than 27 weeks and for babies who
are seriously ill.
The Winnicott Baby Unit (Special Care and Intensive Care) is a
regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, containing 8 Intensive Care
cots, 6 High Dependency cots and 8 Special Care cots. It provides
care for extreme pre-term and critically ill newborns from all
around North West London, England and Wales. It caters for medical
and surgical conditions apart from cardiac and neurosurgery
cases.
More than 300 babies a year are admitted to our service, of
which 30% are premature. 20% are less than 28 weeks gestation with
a survival rate of 70%, compared to the national average of 45% and
cerebral palsy rates of 18%, compared to other developed countries
where the rate is 20-22%.
We support an Obstetric Service of over 4,200 deliveries a year,
which has expertise in maternal and fetal medicine, recurrent
miscarriage, substance misuse and infectious diseases.
There are 5 Neonatologists in the Department with special
interests in Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine, Infection and Neuro
Development.
Fetal Medicine Unit
The Neonatal Service manages many high risk babies referred via our
Fetal Medicine and Maternity Daycare Unit. There is a joint weekly
Perinatal Clinic (Wednesday afternoons) run by a Neonatologist and
an Obstetrician, where women with complicated pregnancies are
counselled.
Winnicott highlights
The leading unit in UK for developmental care (known as the
Neonatal and Infant Developmental Care and Assessment Programme -
NIDCAP, and the only training centre) - helping to keep disability
rates at or below international averages.
We organised the world's first conference on brain development
and early intervention in intensive care in 2003 and held a highly
successful follow-up conference in 2005.
We are the first unit in England and second in UK to introduce a
fully electronic patient record (Badger system) - which will
interface with national systems.
We developed a ventilator (SiPAP) chosen as a cutting edge
"medical innovations" exhibit at the Science Museum in 2002.
We are a member of the Vermont-Oxford International Network of
500 Special Care Baby Units which allows us to benchmark care
outcomes and improve services.
We run a Neuro-Developmental Assessment (Griffiths) Clinic for
very low birth weight infants at the corrected age of 2.
Getting to St.Mary's Hospital
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Travelling
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