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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Stadium Road
Woolwich
London
SE18 4QH
Tel: 0208 836 4530/4394
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital runs as a Special Care Unit (SCU). SCUs provide special care for their own local population. Depending on arrangements within their neonatal network, they may also provide some high dependency services. In addition, SCUs provide a stabilisation facility for babies who need to be transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for intensive or high dependency care, and they also receive transfers from other network units for continuing special care.
The Neonatal Unit is on the second floor above the Main Entrance and is a well-equipped service with 16 cots. This means that it can admit high dependency and special care babies over 28 weeks gestation. Babies born at less than 28 weeks gestation will be transferred to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), coordinated by the Dedicated Retrieval Team from Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel. Neonatal surgery cases will also be transferred to one of the hospitals within the South East London Neonatal Network.
The length of stay can be anything from a few days to 4 to 6 weeks for premature babies. Parents, siblings and other family members are welcome to stay at any time of the day or night. Parents are encouraged to participate in the care of their baby and to hold them as much as is possible. Mothers are supported in feeding their babies with specialist nurses on hand to provide help with both breast and bottle feeding, and there is a dedicated room for mothers to express milk.
Parents have their own sitting room with tea and coffee making facilities and there are two bedrooms available to use when their baby is ready for discharge from the unit.
Babies who have continuing healthcare needs after they are discharged will be referred to the Children's Community Nursing team and Health Visitors and Community Midwives are kept informed.
To view the Transport Team's Parent Information Pack for Queen Elizabeth Hospital please click here.
GETTING TO QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, WOOLWICH
For information on how to get to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, please click on the link below.
Getting to Queen Elizabeth Hospital
The above link will also provide you with hospital site maps.
