Complex Home Ventilation and Weaning Service

We provide a comprehensive service for people who need assisted ventilation (help with their breathing), receiving referrals from hospitals across the East Midlands and beyond. 

Our team specialises in reducing patients’ dependency or ‘weaning’ them from invasive ventilation through a tracheostomy (a tube inserted into the windpipe), either to full independence or to non-invasive ventilation through a mask at night.

The service is based at the Queens Medical Centre, with some outpatient appointments and inpatient facilities at Nottingham City Hospital.

The home ventilation service for children is also based at the QMC and there are very close links between the adult and paediatric services, including joint clinics for adolescents and young adults.