Children’s Intensive Care Unit

Every year we treat around 500 – 600 desperately sick children from 0 – 18 years old. Some are from the local area, but many have been rushed to the hospital from Greater London and the South East and the rest of the UK to receive the specialist care that St Mary’s Children’s Intensive Care Unit can provide Our unit is the only unit in the country to specialise in care for children with acute life-threatening conditions such as toxic shock, meningitis, meningococcal septicaemia, bronchiolitis and pneumonia, as well as infectious diseases such as Sars and COVID. Before they were admitted to St Mary’s due to accident or sudden illness, the children were perfectly well. Our patients and families come from all walks of life, but they arrive at our doorstep to get the best possible care and the best chance at life. Below are some of our wonderful patients.

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When I was 2 cosmic helped to make me better when I was ill.
Amber
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I came to cosmic because my blood sugar was 1 and my heart nearly stopped and they made me better.
Alannah
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I came to cosmic when I had a really bad cough and the cosmic doctors made me better.
Austin
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Cosmic helped me because I had a cyst in my tummy, they put me in intensive care and cut the cyst out
Luke
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Eddie “I came to cosmic because I couldn’t breathe properly, but they made me better.” Amelia “My name is Amelie and I am Eddie’s sister and I missed him and I sent him a big card and it was nice to see him when he came home.
Eddie and Amelia
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When I was 4 I was really ill and I was dying and cosmic raised money to go to the equipment and training with the nurses.
Natalia
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Cosmic means to me a hospital that helped me and hooked me up to a machine and gave me medicine
Theo
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The neonatal service is made up of two units Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital (QCCH) St Mary’s Hospital (SMH).

The Neonatal Service provides specialist care for babies born prematurely, predominantly in the North West London sector but also takes referrals from other neonatal networks. Each year 1000 babies are admitted to our two neonatal units, making us one of the largest neonatal services in the UK. Our areas of expertise include: Management of extremely pre-term infants, respiratory care and early extubation, neonatal MRI scanner on the neonatal unit, Cooling therapy for term babies with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, human milk bank based at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital.

“We will be forever grateful for the help and continued support we have received.” Oliver and Edwards “I often have flashbacks to the trauma of witnessing what my own children and other children and parents went through, yet also remember all the amazing team there who were so incredibly professional, thoughtful and kind.”

Sophia