Region(s) | Retrieval service | Patient type | Main admitting unit(s) |
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Regional teams | |||
North Thames (London) | Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS)* | PIC | Great Ormond Street Hospital |
Hertfordshire | |||
Bedfordshire | St Mary's Hospital | ||
Essex | Royal Brompton Hospital | ||
East Anglia | Addenbrookes Hospital (Cambridge) | ||
South Thames (London) | South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS) based at Evelina Children's Hospital PICU | PIC | Evelina Children's Hospital |
Kent | |||
Surrey | King's College Hospital | ||
Sussex | St George's Hospital | ||
West Midlands | West Midlands Paediatric Retrieval Service (WMPRS) | PIC | Birmingham Children's Hospital |
University Hospital of North Staffordshire | |||
North West England and North Wales | North West and North Wales Paediatric Transport Service (NWTS) | PIC | Manchester Children's Hospital |
Alder Hey Children's Hospital (Liverpool) | |||
Yorkshire and Humber | Yorkshire and Humber Infant and Children's Transport Service (Embrace) | PIC | Sheffield Children's Hospital |
Neonatal | Leeds General Infirmary | ||
Neonatal network | |||
PICU-based teams | |||
East Anglia | PICU-based (Cambridge) | PIC | Addenbrookes Hospital (Cambridge) |
South of England | PICU-based (Southampton) | PIC | Southampton University Hospital |
South West England | PICU-based (Bristol) | PIC | Bristol Royal Hospital for Children |
South Wales | PICU-based (Cardiff) | PIC | University Hospital Wales (Cardiff) |
East Midlands | PICU-based (Nottingham) | PIC | Nottingham University Hospitals |
East Midlands | PICU-based (Leicester)* | PIC | University Hospitals of Leicester |
Thames Valley | PICU-based (Oxford) | PIC | John Radcliffe Hospital (Oxford) |
North of England | PICU-based* (Newcastle) | PIC | Newcastle Hospitals |
West Scotland | PICU-based* (Glasgow) | PIC | Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Glasgow) |
East Scotland | PICU-based (Edinburgh) | PIC | Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Edinburgh) |
↵* Represents retrieval services that also transport patients into extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation beds.
PIC, paediatric intensive care (includes neonates transported to PICU for management of cardiac or other surgical conditions); PICU, paediatric intensive care unit.