Maternity and neonatal services - neonatal intensive care plan: options appraisal

This report describes the options appraisal process undertaken, and the feasibility analysis and testing to identify which out of Scotland’s current eight neonatal intensive care Units should be the final three Units as proposed by Best Start.


Annex D - Neonatal Units: Data 2015 – 2017

Unit/Level Level Deliveries 2016 (ISD) Neonatal Admissions (2016) <27 Weeks <1500g ITU cots* HDU cots* SC cots* TC
2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow 3 5728 593 14 9 18 51 64 75 16 14 20 0
Princess Royal Maternity, Glasgow 3 5964 466 21 18 21 63 62 70 4 6 18 0
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 3 6241 815 24 22 16 85 87 93 9 8 22 0
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital 3 5134 886 14 6 8 54 56 63 10 7 19 0
Wishaw General 3 4669 787 12 15 18 42 64 76 8 10 11 6
Ninewells, Dundee 3 3975 566 10 7 5 51 47 25 4 3 14 4
Crosshouse Maternity, Kilmarnock 3 3549 480 6 8 9 42 45 29 5 4 11 4
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy 3 3473 366 12 11 11 32 50 52 4 2 14 0
Forth Valley, Larbert 2 3118 362 0 6 10 17 21 11 5 2 13 0
Raigmore, Inverness 2 2035 263 1 3 1 8 10 10 2 1 8 0
St Johns, Livingstone 2 2629 269 2 1 0 7 10 3 0 2 8 0
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley 2 3546 383 4 2 7 25 20 28 3 3 10 0
Cresswell, Dumfries 1/2 1211 199 0 1 1 18 13 13 2 0 9 0
Borders General, Melrose 1 991 112 0 1 1 0 4 3 0 2 6 0
Dr Grays, Elgin 1 1013 - - - 0 0 4 0
Total 53276 6547 120 110 126 495 553 551 72 64 187 14

*The cot numbers on this list are indicative figures, as there is flexibility built into the operation of levels of care. Data from 2016

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