The Harborne Hospital
Mindelsohn Way B15 2FQ Birmingham
Intensive care medicine
Critical care for adults and children. All of our main hospitals provide level 2 and level 3 critical care to adults, while The Portland Hospital offers paediatric intensive care
Intensive care treatment at HCA Healthcare UK
We have level 2 (HDU) and level 3 (ICU) critical care units in all our main hospitals, we can take care of you even in the most challenging situations. In fact, one in nine of our beds are for our critical care patients. Receiving critical care is not a choice but provided when medically necessary, the level of care provided will be lead by our specialist teams, clinical experience and medical requirements.
What are the levels of critical care at HCA UK?
Level 2 - High Dependency Unit (HDU). This level of care is for patients needing single organ support (excluding mechanical ventilation) such as renal haemofiltration or ionotropes and invasive BP monitoring. This level of critical care is staffed with one nurse to two patients.
Level 3 - Intensive Care Unit (ICU/ITU). This level of care is for patients requiring two or more organ support (or needing mechanical ventilation alone). This level of critical care is staffed with one nurse per patient and usually with an intensive care doctor present in the unit 24 hours per day.
Private ICU
No matter how ill you become, when you're one of our patients, you won't have to be transferred to another hospital.
ICU specialists
Our critical and intensive care consultants
Our consultant intensivists and critical care nurses give one-to-one care, 24/7.
We use the latest technology to give multi-organ and advanced respiratory support (level 3), and to look after high dependency patients who have single organ failure or who've just had major surgery.
Our Intensive care medicine locations
The Harley Street Clinic
35 Weymouth Street W1G 8BJ London
The Lister Hospital
Chelsea Bridge Road SW1W 8RH London
London Bridge Hospital
27 Tooley Street SE1 2PR London
The Portland Hospital
205-209 Great Portland Street W1W 5AH London
The Princess Grace Hospital
42-52 Nottingham Place W1U 5NY London
The Wellington Hospital
Wellington Place St John's Wood NW8 9LE London
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