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St Marys Hospital
St.Mary's Hospital
Praed Street
London
W2 1NY
Tel: 020 7886 6666
To view the Parent Information Leaflet for this Unit please click here.
St Mary's Hospital runs as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). NICUs are sited alongside specialist obstetric and feto-maternal medicine services, and provide the whole range of medical neonatal care for their local population, along with additional care for babies and their families referred from the neonatal network.
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.
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.
For further information on the Winnicot Unit and the Winnicot Foundation, which supports the work carried out on the unit, please click here.
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
For information on how to get to St.Mary's Hospital by car, Rail and Bus services please click on the link below.
Travelling to St.Mary's Hospital
The above link will also provide you with hospital site maps.
