Unit Information

Via Mendip Reception during daytime.
Via NICU Security door at night.

The Nurse or Doctor caring for your baby.

• Consultant Neonatologist
• Supervisory Ward Sister
• Nurse in Charge
• Nurse caring for baby

Following ward rounds or by appointment with baby’s consultant.  Most are available during the day.

Doctors

• Mornings 08.30 – 10.30
• Afternoons 17.00 – 17.45
• Evenings  21.00 -22.00

Nurses

• Handover time – 07.30 -08.00, 19.30 – 20.00

15.30 – 17.00

4 bedrooms on unit, including quiet suite. 
3 – 4 bedrooms across site, some are single rooms.

Sitting room, bathroom and toilet.

Breast feeding advisor and key worker 5 days a week.  Breast expressing room, breast pumps with premie facility.

Playroom

• Parent volunteers
• Clinical psychologist
• Developmental Care Sister

Unit access available 24 hours a day

Visiting time are 14.00 – 15.00 & 18.30 – 19.00.  Exceptions can be made.

Up to two parents and one visitor on unit at any time.

Parents would be asked not to visit if they are unwell. Visiting for siblings would be restricted if they had any childhood illness.

Coats to be kept outside the unit.  Handwashing facility inside door.  All visitors to the unit are asked to wash their hands on arrival to the unit.

Dr Paul Mannix

Head of Nursing: Melanie De Witt

 Supervisory Ward Sister: Gill Taylor

Band 7 Sisters:
Jeanne McLuskie, Pat Lynch, Susan Lamburne, Amanda Kent.

Community Team:
Caroline Burgess, Paula Brock, Helen Slocombe, Lisa Ramsey, Nazzi Farzinkia, Deborah Townsend