Prepandemic characteristics of seven repurposed PICUs in England
| Hospitals | St Mary’s Hospital | Royal Brompton Hospital | Royal London Hospital | Alder Hey Children’s Hospital | Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital | King’s College Hospital | Royal Stoke University Hospital | Total |
| Region | Northwest London | Northwest London | Northeast London | Northwest England | Northwest England | Southeast London | North Midlands | |
| Hospital characteristics | ||||||||
| Paediatric Emergency Department | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Retrieval Service | No | Yes (adult ECMO) | Yes (London Air Ambulance HEMS) | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Critical care characteristics | ||||||||
| Paediatric (level 3)* | 11 | 16 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 83 |
| Paediatric (level 2)† | 4 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 54 |
| Paediatric ECMO | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Adult (level 2 and 3) | 32 | 42 | 44 | 0 | 56 | 69 | 52 | 295 |
| PICU characteristics | ||||||||
| Annual admissions | 412 | 569 | 369 | 951 | 1133 | 642 | 277 | 4353 |
| External admission sources | CATS and STRS | CATS and STRS | CATS and STRS | NWTS | NWTS | STRS and CATS | KIDS and NWTS | |
| Usual PICU case-mix | Medical-surgical | Cardiorespiratory | Medical-surgical | Medical-surgical and cardiac | Medical-surgical | Medical-surgical | Medical-surgical | |
| Specialist services | Paediatric Major trauma centre Paediatric HCID-A centre Non-oncological bone marrow transplant centre | Congenital heart surgery (all ages) Long-term ventilation (all ages) Adult unit is one of five centrally funded ECMO centres for acute respiratory failure | Major trauma centre (all ages) National referral centre for bone marrow failure syndromes, Tertiary gastroenterology and endocrinology | Paediatric Major Trauma centre Paediatric ECMO centre (cardiac and respiratory) Congenital heart surgery Paediatric HCID-A centre Designated Vein of Galen centre | Metabolic service Bone marrow transplant service | Major trauma centre Tertiary gastroenterology National Liver Transplant Centre Neurosciences |
*Level 3 critical care defined as invasive organ support (intensive care).
†Level 2 critical care defined as high dependency care.
CATS, Children’s Acute Transport Service; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; HCID-A, High Consequence Infectious Disease—Airborne; HEMS, Helicopter Emergency Medical Service; KIDS, Kids Intensive Care and Decision Support; PICU, paediatric intensive care unit; STRS, South Thames Retrieval Service.