The Neonatal Unit 

The Neonatal Unit is located on the 3rd floor of the BEACH Building (B12) at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. See map here. 

The Neonatal Unit cares for babies requiring special care, whether it is due to prematurity, illness at delivery, or health problems during the baby's stay at hospital.

The unit has 20 cots; fours of those are intensive care cots, six are high dependency cots, and ten are special care cots.

If your baby has to stay in the Neonatal Unit, we will work with the immediate family and/or carers to meet his/her specific needs. The facilities at the special baby unit include two overnight rooms with en-suite showers, one side room, four on unit/isolation rooms that parents can stay in alongside their baby, a shower room, expressing room, and a family room. 

The unit has open visiting for parents and siblings. Other visiting is between 2:30pm-6pm.