Inpatient services for children at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
The Children's Inpatients Ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital - known as Safari Ward - provides a warm and welcoming environment for children requiring a variety of treatments and lengths of stay.
Location
Safari Ward is on the ground floor next to the Hippo Paedriatic Assessment Unit and Children's Outpatients (Dolphin Ward) and accessed via the entrance to "Macmillan Brook Unit". The nearest parking is at Car Park 1.
Contact
Children's Ward (Safari) Reception
T: 020 8836 5400/5427
About the ward
- A 20 bedded ward providing care for children and young people with a variety of medical conditions, such as asthma, bronchiolitis, diabetes, sickle cell, epilepsy, and surgical and orthopaedic conditions.
- We support children and young people who present with medical complications and also have mental health needs.
- The team includes paediatric consultants, registrars, senior house officers, a matron, a clinical nurse manager, practice development nurse, senior staff nurses, staff nurses and healthcare assistants.
How can you get a referral?
Children will be booked in for surgery having come through Children's Outpatients (Dolphin Ward) or Hippo Paedriatic Assessment Unit or directly from the Emergency Department (A&E).