Ward 12 is the Children’s Critical Care Unit. We are an 18 bedded critical care facility, caring for all critically-ill children from the North East and North Cumbria with vast number of conditions relating to:
- Respiratory and ENT
- General surgery
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Burns and plastic surgery
- Trauma
- Nephrology
- Endocrinology
- Oncology
- Immunology and bone marrow transplant
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
We work closely with the Children’s Heart Unit based at the Freeman Hospital.
The Great North Children’s Hospital and Freeman Hospital host one of the largest and most comprehensive children’s critical care services in the UK and serve the largest geographical area in England.
You can find out more about children’s critical care here.
Ward visiting times
Visiting should be arranged with the ward sister.
Location of ward
PICU is on level four of the Great North Children’s Hospital in New Victoria Wing at the RVI.
Contact
Please call 0191 282 6012
