Departments

Neonatology

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LGI
SJUH
No. of deliveries 4300 3600
No. of admissions 850 450
No. of intensive care days 2600 1800
No. of intensive care cots 9 6
Total No. of cots 35 20
Leeds Teaching Hospitals newborn care is spread across the St. James’ (SJUH) and General Infirmary (LGI) sites. Both sites offer all levels of newborn care with different specialties being offered at each site; the Infirmary have surgery, neurology and cardiology services whilst St. James’ look after nephrology and hepatology in conjunction with the specialist teams. There are about 8500 deliveries/year in Leeds with marginally more at the LGI as the table below shows.
Junior Doctors

Staff


LGI
SJUH
Prof. M. Levene**
Dr. S. Newell
Dr. A.B. Gill
Dr. L. Miall
Dr. P. Chetcuti
Dr. K. Johnson
Dr. S. English
 Dr. E. McKechnie
Dr. C. Harrison Dr. S. Thomas*


There are ten consultants across the service, nine of which participate in the on call cover, providing cross city cover at the weekends and single site cover on week nights.

** acute on call weekdays only         

*does not do acute on call

There are well over 100 nurses that work in our units, some of whom rotate between sites and some of whom are based on a single site. They are led by our Matron, Yvette Bartlett with a Lead Nurse on each site; Sally Kemp (LGI) and Jackie Riley (SJUH). There is a team of Senior Sisters who form the Outreach Team looking after our babies after discharge in the community and a number of neonatal nurse practitioners.

The nursing staff has an invaluable wealth of experience in care of the newborn and you have the opportunity to learn a lot from them. It is wise to listen to them when they offer advice!

Doctors who participate on the neonatal rota will be given the newborn service handbooks at the beginning of their term. These are available to others should they require them.  However, a few highlights are brought to everyone’s attention here to cover emergency situations.