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Not every baby is born happy and healthy. Some are born prematurely, some get incredibly sick when they are born, and some require specialist treatments for specific conditions. Not every neonatal unit is equipped to manage certain conditions, and this is when the CenTre Neonatal Transport team step in, moving the newborns so that they can have the care they need.

CenTre Neonatal Transport is a neonatal transportation service with ambulances that transport babies to and from hospitals. Based in Castle Donington, they cover the whole of the East midlands (that's 14 hospitals).

The team often have some transfers booked in, but many are on-the-day cases that require urgent attention. The service mostly connects hospitals in the East Midlands, but the team have occasionally ended up as far as London's Great Ormond Street Hospital when a baby needs highly specialized services!

Your donations will help the team to improve the patient journey and the experience of the parents who travel with them in the ambulance. Little things such as providing a bear (ours is called Miles) can be used as a positioning aid and then become a memento of their journey.

Learn more about Centre, and the vital work that the team do, by visiting https://www.centreneonataltransport.nhs.uk/

Donating to this page, and Leicester Hospitals Charity, enables Centre to enhance our services, care and environment. The smallest gift really can help so please, support our fantastic fundraisers and help them raise as much money as possible for Centre.