Tel: 01770 600 777
Tel: 01770 601 249 (direct line to maternity unit)
A small cottage hospital with 24 beds, including 2 maternity beds. There are 30-35 maternity cases per annum, with 7 low risk deliveries a year on the island.
Responsible Unit
Ayrshire Maternity (Crosshouse)
Staff
There are 2 midwives on the island, with medical support provided by local GPs.
Unit facilities
- Incubator: No– thermocare unit.
- Resuscitaire: Hill Rom with T piece
- Saturation Monitor: Nellcor
- Air/Oxygen availability: 2 Oxygen cylinders on resuscitaire
- X rays: Available (on call from home)
- Blood gases: Not available
- Blood sugars: Available
- Labs: None
- Drugs:
Adrenaline
Sodium bicarbonate
Narcan
Atropine
IV fluids
- Phototherapy: None
- Infusion pumps: No
- Telemedicine: No
Transport Options
Air
Helicopter landing in Brodick, 3 miles from Lamlash
Road
Calmac Ferry from Ardrossan 6 times a day (4 on a Sunday). Crossing time 55 minutes, traveling time to Ardrossan around 1 hour, hospital 4 miles from Harbour
Local Access
2 ambulances on the island, both equipped to take the transport incubator.
The hospital is situated on a hillside with a steep and narrow road to the hospital. To get access to the first floor maternity unit the transport incubator must be pushed to the rear. There is access to a ramp which is level with the first floor rear entrance (due to a low archway the ambulance cannot get access to this ramp). There is a ramp directly into the maternity unit but it is narrow with a 90o turn that is hard to negotiate with the incubator. In practice this slope may be too steep/rough for access, and recently the incubator was left at the main entrance and the baby carried downstairs to the incubator.