Wards

Welcome to the Children's Ambulatory Care Unit

Ambulatory Care is a pre-operative, day case surgery and medical day case treatment unit made up of six recliner chairs and two side rooms, two play rooms and a parents’ kitchen fully stocked with snacks, sandwiches and drinks for patients post-surgery. B floor day case is made up of seven recliner chairs, a large play area and waiting area pre-operatively. Both units are multiple speciality, treating some or all of the following:

• General surgery
• Maxillofacial (jaw and face – MaxFax)
• Orthopaedic
• Ear, nose and throat (ENT)
• Ophthalmic (eyes)
• Dental
• Infliximab infusions
• Allergy testing
• Plastic surgery

Contact us

Tel: 0115 924 9924
Ext: 86147 (D Floor Ambulatory Care)  86359 (B Floor Surgical Day Case)

Additional information for visitors

Most children who come to Ambulatory Care are day case patients however some patients may begin their hospital journey on Ambulatory Care before going on to another inpatient area.

Opening times

7am-7pm Monday – Friday (some days on B Floor Day Case are 7am-3pm)

The Childrens Burns and Plastics Unit is located within the Nottingham Children's Hospital.

The Burns Service is designated as a Childrens Burn Unit for the Midlands by the Midland Burn Operational Delivery Network and we work closely with other burn care hospitals in Birmingham and Leicester.

Our specialist team offers services to patients with acute burn and plastics injuries and with problems related to long-term burn scarring. 

Burns and plastics requiring outpatient care and treatment are seen and managed on the Children's Burns & Plastics Unit. Burns and plastics inpatients are cared for on Ward D35.

We have a dedicated dressing clinic that is available daily - Monday to Friday.

We provide integrated, multi-disciplinary care involving surgeons, anaesthetists, nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, play specialists and psychotherapists. The team co-ordinates care through a weekly multi-disciplinary case review.

We offer a range of surgical treatments, as well as therapy and medical treatments.

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 82388

The Children’s Assessment Unit forms part of the acute medical admission pathway for the Children’s Hospital. It is a fast-paced, busy unit that receives all medical patients needing admission from the Children’s Emergency Department. 

It has 9 bed spaces, 3 assessment rooms and a large waiting area. Patients can be referred to CAU from a number of different routes including the Children’s Emergency Department, GP surgeries, Outpatient clinics and community Midwives. 

CAU cares for children and young people who have a wide range of conditions including sepsis, asthma, viral induced wheeze, intentional overdose, bronchiolitis and newly diagnosed diabetes. 

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89038

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89305

We are an elective day case unit caring for patients from 3 months old to 18 years, pre and post-surgery. We provide care for a variety of specialities including ENT, gastroenterology, general surgery, urology, maxillofacial, community dental, burns and plastics, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and MRI.

Our unit has 14 recliner chairs and 1 side room with a bed.

We also care for patients undergoing daycase emergency surgery.

Contact the ward

Please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 86147

Contact us

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89033

 

Our location

D33
East Block
D Floor

 

Getting to us

You will need to use a lift or scale stairs to access this serivce.

Ward D34 is the surgical elective inpatient ward, we also care for emergency patients when ward D35 is at capacity. We care for children from birth to aged 18 years old. We accept all surgical specialities such as ENT, Orthopaedic, General surgery, Cleft, Maxilla facial etc.

We provide care for patients from preoperative, post operative and through to discharge. We care for patients receiving complex analgesia regimes such as patient or nurse-controlled analgesia infusion and epidurals, to support patients following complex Oncology resections and patients with hip spicas and external fixators to name a few.

We work closely with ward D35 and the Children’s Surgical Daycare to enable us to run as a combined surgical floor as needed.

D34 has 20 bay beds and 1 side room, current occupancy is between 12 and 16 inpatients.

Contact the ward

Please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89034

Our location

D34

East Block

D Floor

Ward D35 is a 12 to 15 bedded inpatient ward that cares for children having emergency surgery. We are also the inpatient ward for all paediatric burns admissions and work closely with the children’s burns unit. 

We care for patients from birth to 18 years old under multiple different surgical specialities. These include general surgery, burns and plastics, orthopaedics, major trauma, ear, nose and throat, maxillofacial and more. Some patients can be cared for under multiple specialities at the same time. The length of patient admissions can be admitted from a little as 24 hours, up to over 1 year depending on the child’s care requirements. We often care for babies who have been initially cared for on the neonatal unit and require further ongoing care. Often these are the patients who are with us the longest. 

We provide various complex surgical interventions such as epidurals, different types of traction, patient or nurse-controlled analgesia infusions, ketamine infusions, local anaesthetic infusions, parenteral nutrition, chest drains and so much more! 

Ward D35 is a fast paced and interesting ward to work on, with lots to learn and always something different to see and experience.

Additional information for patients and visitors to Ward D35

Ward D35 works closely with a variety of specialist teams, including: Gastrostomy Nurse Specialists, Burns Nurse specialists, Pain Nurse specialists, Dietitians, Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists.

Contact us

Please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89035

Our location

Ward D35

East Block

D Floor

E17 is a 10 bedded nephrology and urology ward, we provide inpatient care for patients from Nottingham and within the East Midlands, East of England and South Yorkshire (EMEESY) network. 

The ward is made up of 4 side rooms with en-suite facilities, a 4-bedded bay and a 2-bedded bay. 

We care for patients requiring dialysis and transplantation and receiving urology surgery. If your child has a kidney or bladder problem and needs admission, ward E17 is normally where they will be admitted. As well as admitting children with kidney and bladder problems, we are part of Nottingham Children's Hospital and we do admit children with other conditions when beds are needed. 

There is a team of specialised ward nurses and the team also includes others such as play specialists, domestics, pharmacists, receptionists and doctors.

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89017

Ward E37 is the adjoining ward to the Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU) and is a longer stay medical ward. Patients that are not medically ready to be discharged from CAU will be transferred to E37 for continuation of their care. 

E37 is a 20-bedded ward that cares for children and young people who have a wide range of conditions including sepsis, asthma, viral induced wheeze, intentional overdose, bronchiolitis and newly diagnosed diabetes. 

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89037

Ward E39 is an oncology and haematology ward for children and young people with cancer and leukaemia. 

The ward has 15 beds, made up of two, 4 bedded bays and 2 side rooms in the children’s area and a 5 bedded Teenage Cancer Trust unit with 2 side rooms and a 3 bedded bay.

The department provides a comprehensive service for the diagnosis and management of childhood leukaemia, solid tumours and non-malignant Hematologic conditions. 

The service provides care by a team of paediatric oncology nurses, clinical and medical oncologists with onsite imaging, pathology, specialist liaison nurses, symptom care and pharmacy expertise. 

Ward E39 is accredited by the Joint Accreditation Committee of the International Society for Cellular Therapy and the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (JACIE) and we accept patients returning from autologous Stem Cell Transplants. 

Facilities on the ward include a Teenage Cancer Trust social room, parent’s kitchen, quiet room and a playroom. 

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89039

E39 Day care is located on the end of E39 and accommodates 10 patients at any one time providing a variety of outpatient oncology, Rheumatology and Haematology care to children from birth to 18 years. These treatments include immunotherapy, chemotherapy, blood transfusions and much more.

Day Care is split into 3 sections;

• A General Anaesthetic room, where patients are delivered intrathecal chemotherapy, bone marrow aspirates and skin biopsy’s twice a week on a Wednesday and Friday.
• A 3 bedded open bay which is open to the nursing and medical desks.
• A bay with 6 patient chairs.

Each bed space is provided with a parent chair.

Although a stand-alone unit, facilities such as patient Kitchen and toilets are shared with E39 and our teams work closely together to deliver seamless care.

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 83264

E40 is a 16 bedded neurosciences and spinal ward caring for children from birth to 18 years old with complex neurological conditions including neurosurgery, neurology and neuro oncology. There is also a 4 bedded spinal HDU bay which caters for children having scoliosis surgery.

Neurosurgical theatre days are a Tuesday and Thursday, the most common operations are shunt surgery for hydrocephalus, removal of brain tumours, vagal nerve stimulator (VNS) implants and craniotomies post traumatic brain injury.

Spinal theatre days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, operating on both complex neuromuscular scoliosis and idiopathic scoliosis. The general length of stay for these patients is 5-7 days

Neurology care for complex epilepsy children and many other neurological conditions

This also includes neuro rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury. We work very closely with the brain injury living life (BRILL) team which is a rehab team consisting of physio, OT, SALT and psychology. Patients requiring neuro rehabilitation can have long inpatient stays.

Neuro-oncology, we are currently the only centre in the UK that will surgically remove a brain tumour and keep the children on the same ward for their ongoing chemotherapy treatment and providing a consistency of care for the families.

To contact the ward, please call 0115 924 9924 Ext. 89040

Speciality Information

Children’s Neurosurgery - https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/neurosurgery-childrens-hospital

Children’s Neurology - https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/childrens-neurology

Children’s Neuro-oncology - https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/childrens-neuro-oncology

Children’s Epilepsy Service - https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/childrens-epilepsy-service

Visiting Information

Parents are able to visit anytime, however we ask that all other visitors come between 8am and 8pm only.

Our Location

Ward E40

East Block

E Floor

QMC

Welcome to PCCU, we are a 14 bedded unit spread across 2 clinical areas; intensive care and high dependency, for children 0-18 years old.

We take routine and emergency admissions from the local area and from surrounding hospitals.

We care for children and young people with a wide range of conditions, requiring high to intensive levels of observation and clinical care. Our specialties include:

• Major trauma, Renal, Oncology/Haematology, Spinal/Orthopaedic,
• Neurology/ Neurosurgery, ENT/Cleft lip & palate, Respiratory, General
• Surgery and Burns/Plastics.

Parents are provided with a room to stay in for the duration of their child’s time on PCCU, where possible, and provide vouchers towards food and drink, as well as emergency toiletries and fixed parking rates for parents of children requiring a longer stay.

Usually parents can visit at any time day or night and extended family can visit until 8pm.*

*However, due to COVID 19, currently only 1 parent can visit at a time and are asked to swap over off the unit to limit the number of people in the clinical area. Parents on the unit will be asked to wear a surgical facemask while away from the bed space. This will continue until further notice.

Where are we?

E Floor

East Block

QMC

Contact:

0115 9249924

PICU Ext: 81232

HDU Ext: 89041

Welcome to Theatre Recovery

A member of ward staff will escort you and your child down to Theatre Recovery Reception where you will wait your turn to be called to Theatre. Only one parent/carer can accompany the child into the Anaesthetic room, where the child will go to sleep and you can kiss them goobye. You will be escorted out by the staff member and taken back to the ward.

The recovery area is a large bayed room which cares for adults and children post-operatively. We provide 1:1 nursing care during the initial recovery period. Once the child is awake and comfortable, parents will be invited down to be with their child. Please be mindful that some children take longer to wake up than others and that is perfectly normal. The recovery area is busy and bright at all times but we have distraction techniques such as interactive books, TVs and DVD players to make the recovery experience as positive as possible.

The child will remain in recovery until they are well enough to go back to the ward. Patient escorts will help transfer your child back to the ward with a nurse. 

 

Contact us

Ward staff will keep you informed of your child's progress

 

Our location

Main Recovery, C Floor, East Block

ENT Recovery, D Floor, ENT Building

Children's Surgical Day Care Unit, B Floor, West Block 

 

Additional information for patients and visitors 

Theatre recovery staff work closely with a number of healthcare professionals, such as surgeons from every speciality, scrub nurses, Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs), patient escorts, Nursing Associates, student nurses and clinical support workers.