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 C - Neonatal Units: Data 2015 – 2017 compared to Data 2018/19 – 2021/2022

Unit/Level Level <27 Weeks <1500g
2015 2016 2017 2018/ 2019 2019/ 2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2015 2016 2017 2018/ 2019 2019/ 2020 2020/ 2021 2021/2022
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow 3 14 9 18 16 14 17 27 51 64 75 62 76 64 83
Princess Royal Maternity, Glasgow 3 21 18 21 25 15 16 20 63 62 70 81 56 56 61
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 3 24 22 16 26 25 22 33 85 87 93 99 77 72 73
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital 3 14 6 8 8 13 10 18 54 56 63 59 50 55 60
Wishaw General 3 12 15 18 21 14 17 23 42 64 76 59 55 42 70
Ninewells, Dundee 3 10 7 5 11 8 12 14 51 47 25 51 44 42 50
Crosshouse Maternity, Kilmarnock 3 6 8 9 3 10 4 2 42 45 29 38 36 19 20
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy 3 12 11 11 5 6 0 2 32 50 52 28 20 15 21
Forth Valley, Larbert 2 0 6 10 4 0 10 8 17 21 11 27 21 36 29
Raigmore, Inverness 2 1 3 1 3 2 1 1 8 10 10 10 11 9 6
St Johns, Livingstone 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 7 10 3 7 8 3 1
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley 2 4 2 7 0 2 5 2 25 20 28 22 13 22 26
Cresswell, Dumfries 1/2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 18 13 13 7 5 4 6
Borders General, Melrose 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 3 1 2 1 0
Dr Grays, Elgin 1 - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 120 110 126 124 114 115 151 495 553 551 551 474 440 531

Contact

Email: thebeststart@gov.scot

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