Paediatric intensive care
Critical care for babies and children, including neonatal intensive care and special care baby unit.
About paediatric intensive care
We're fully equipped to be able to give your child or newborn baby the highest level of care at The Portland Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK.
We provide paediatric and neonatal intensive care medicine, for children under 18 and babies.
Our consultant paediatric intensivists and specialist nurses give your child one-to-one care and monitor their progress 24 hours a day.
We don't just take care of their medical needs we give you the support you need, too.
Our intensive care consultants
The unit is lead by experienced intensive care doctors, who work closely with other consultants, specialist nurses and allied health professionals to ensure each child received the care and support they need.
The Portland Hospital
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at The Portland Hospital has 10-beds that provides level 3 intensive care.
This unit can care for children with brain, spinal and heart conditions as well as provide multi-organ support. The unit also has kidney, heart and respiratory replacement technology.
The nursing teams working with this unit are experienced in intensive care nursing and can support and guide parents during their child' stay.
Our Paediatric intensive care locations
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