Neonatal
Unit
Hillingdon Hospital: Main building, 1st Floor Maternity block
General enquiries: 01895 279447
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The neonatal unit is specially designed and equipped for babies needing extra medical and nursing care. Many babies come here because they are premature or unwell.
The
team consists of dedicated doctors and nurses working together to provide high quality individualised family centred care for the all the babies on the unit.
The team supports developmental care for the babies on the unit, facilitating this by positioning or swaddling the preterm infants, minimising noise and lighting in the nurseries to allow maximise rest time for the babies. |
Visiting
Parents can welcome to visit at any time. Other friends and relatives are free to visit up to 7.30 pm and must be accompanied by one of the baby’s parents. Due to restricted space, we can only allow 3 visitors (including parents) by the baby’s cot side at a time. We ask that on arrival to the unit everyone washes their hands before entering the nursery area.
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Facilities
There are 5 intensive, three high dependency and twelve special care cots in the unit. Other facilities on the unit include parents’ kitchen and sitting room and 2 bedrooms for resident parents. The main purpose of these rooms is so that parents can stay and encourage bonding and breastfeeding prior to discharge. Sometime this room is used for parents who wish to stay the night because their baby is very ill in the intensive care. |
Support
We hold regular coffee mornings for parents whose babies have been discharged as well as parents who currently have a baby on the unit. This event is very helpful in allowing parents to meet and share their experiences and support each other on the unit and in the community.
About ten years ago, nurses on the neonatal unit set up 'Cherubs' to raise
funds in order to buy equipment for parents comfort which was not otherwise
available whilst on the unit. See the Cherubs
website.
