The Oliver Fisher Special Care Baby Trust

Within the NICU there are 3 Wards: Intensive Care Ward has space for 12 babies, all requiring the highest level of care around the clock and where a single day of care in this ward costs around £1100. The High Dependency Ward can take 8 babies within it, and patients could be in either an incubator or a cot here. The only rule is minimal breathing support, and care here is around £790 per day. The Special Care Ward is often seen as the final hurdle for families. Babies normally just need to do a final bit of growing before they head home. The care cost per day here is around £505. It is our belief that in their earliest and toughest days of life, our tiny patients - and their families - should have top-level services available to them. Our charity was founded in 1985 to serve this purpose, and offer a 'financial top up' so the unit has the gold standard of everything it needs. This could be anything from equipment to providing breast-pumps for expressing mothers, through to furnishing the Bereavement Suite on the Unit for those hardest of journeys.