NECTAR are a regional team, however if patients require services elsewhere nationally then we will try and facilitate this.
NECTAR are a specialised transport service that provide a wide range of services for the North East and Cumbria region:
- The Great North Children’s Hospital at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle
- The Children’s Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle
- The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead
- University Hospital of North Durham and Darlington Memorial Hospital
- South Tyneside and Sunderland Hospitals
- Cumberland Infirmary and West Cumberland
- Northumbria Specialist Emergence Care Hospital
Friends of NECTAR
We are part of the PICS Acute Transport Group which is a subgroup of the Paediatrics Intensive Care Society.
Over the last fifteen years, there has been a move away from PICUs operating their own retrieval services to the development of regional transport services for critically ill children.
The UK is divided into commissioning regions with each region covered by a PIC Transport Service.
We work collaboratively with other regional transport services nationally.
CATS
The Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS) is a paediatric critical care transport team serving around 50 hospitals in the North Thames, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and East Anglia.
Embrace
Embrace is a highly specialist, round-the-clock transport service for critically ill infants and children in Yorkshire and the Humber who require care in another hospital in the region or further afield.
Oxford and Southampton Children’s Hospital Network
The Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT) is a collaboration between two paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). It delivers expert paediatric critical care to hospitals throughout the south of England.
ScotSTAR Paediatric Retrieval Service
The ScotSTAR Paediatric Retrieval Service is a dedicated paediatric intensive care transport service based at Glasgow Airport. The retrieval team take the skills of the paediatric intensive care unit on the road, to the bedside of critically ill children throughout Scotland.
South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS) referrals
We accept any paediatric emergency referrals from clinicians at general district hospitals or Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in the UK and abroad.
North West & North Wales paediatric transport service
The North West and North Wales Transport Service (NWTS) is a collaborative venture between Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital to transfer critically ill children from District General Hospitals to one of the two Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) within the North West and North Wales area.
KIDS NTS
KIDS NTS provides a 24 hour referral, coordination, advice and transport service for critically ill neonates and children in the West Midlands.
The Wales and West Acute Transport for Children Service (WATCh)
The Wales and West Acute Transport for Children Service (WATCh) is a jointly commissioned team responsible for the safe transfer of critically ill children across South West England and South Wales.
Friends of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Friends of PICU is a registered charity who supports children and their families on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Southampton Children’s Hospital at the University Hospital Southampton.
