Children’s Services
About Children’s Services
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and its antecedent, the Westminster Children’s Hospital, have a proud record of more than 100 years of providing specialist care for children.
Our aim is to provide family and child-centred care, and we are proud of the care we provide for children and young people, which is proving increasingly popular with parents and GPs who refer their patients into our services.
We cared for 86,922 children in 2009/10—compared with 83,921 in 2008/09 and 82,478 in 2007/08—as inpatients, outpatients, day case patients or in our dedicated 24-hour Children’s Emergency Department (A&E).
We are a major provider of children’s services and the comprehensive range of acute, elective and community services that we provide means that children and young people treated at Chelsea and Westminster benefit from a fully integrated package of care from birth through to their late teens and into adulthood.
Chelsea and Westminster has also been designated as the lead centre for specialist paediatric and neonatal surgery in North West London which means that we carry out the most complex surgery on babies and children.
Now a major redevelopment of the hospital is underway to help us achieve our vision of providing world class children’s services. We are building a two-storey extension to the first and second floors of the hospital including:
- Four new state-of-the-art children’s operating theatres
- Improved children’s wards including a streamlined children’s day care unit
- 12-bed children’s High Dependency Unit (HDU) including two high dependency isolation bedrooms with ensuite facilities
- New premises for the Chelsea Community Hospital School
Most of the new facilities are due to be completed and ready to welcome their first patients in early 2012 but the Hospital School has already been relocated.
