Consultant Neonatalogist

The Neonatal services sit within the Children's care group within the Trust. The Neonatal intensive care unit at the William Harvey is one of 4 level 3 units within the South East Coast Operational Delivery Network (SEC ODN). There are 25 cots in total (7 NICU, 4 HDU and 14 SCBU cots) and a newly developed neonatal outreach service to help facilitate earlier hospital discharge support for families. Referrals for the neonatal care are from within the Trust, within the network and sometimes out the network. The Neonatal Unit provides full medical intensive care services and including therapeutic hypothermia, nitric oxide and management of extremely preterm infants. Neonatal surgical and cardiac patients are transferred to the neonatal unit at The Evelina Children's Hospital. Transitional care is provided on Folkestone Ward. We have a fetal medicine department with input from a visiting Fetal Medicine Specialist from St Thomas's Hospital in London (Dr Caroline Knight). There is an active neonatal research programme incorporating NIHR portfolio studies and local research collaborations with the University of Kent. Regular neonatal simulation training is conducted and we have access to a simulation unit within the hospital. We have a weekly ATAIN, fetal medicine, safeguarding and microbiology meetings and have some of the lowest ATAIN rates in the UK (3-4%).