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Through our Maternity and Neonatal Redesign programme, we have been developing plans to expand our neonatal (premature baby) facilities at the Queen’s Medical Centre, giving us a further 21 cots, and providing more space within the Neonatal unit to create a better environment for families and for the staff providing care. Through our Maternity and Neonatal Redesign programme, we have been developing plans to expand our neonatal (premature baby) facilities at the Queen’s Medical Centre, giving us a further 21 cots, and providing more space within the Neonatal unit to create a better environment for families and for the staff providing care. The larger facility would also make it much less likely that in future we would have to send very poorly premature babies out of area, as we would have sufficient cots in Nottingham.Through our Maternity and Neonatal Redesign programme, we have been developing plans to expand our neonatal (premature baby) facilities at the Queen’s Medical Centre, giving us a further 21 cots, and providing more space within the Neonatal unit to create a better environment for families and for the staff providing care. The larger facility would also make it much less likely that in future we would have to send very poorly premature babies out of area, as we would have sufficient cots in Nottingham.

The pressure in the health and care system across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire has led to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust declaring a critical incident.