We are delighted to have awarded Bliss Baby Charter accreditation to the following units. All units have embedded a high quality approach to family-centred care following the Bliss Baby Charter principles.
Frimley Park Hospital
Frimley Park Hospital became the third unit to gain accreditation for it's family-centred care under the Bliss Baby Charter. They have dedicated, trained staff who offer counselling support and run peer to peer groups to promote the well-being of parents on the unit.
Read about Frimley Park's accreditation
Read Frimley Park Hospital's final report
Frimley Park Hospital have since completed the process of re-accreditation, and have achieved their Platinum Award.
Read about Frimley Park's re-accreditation
Read Frimley Park's re-accreditation report
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
The fourth neonatal unit to receive Bliss Baby Charter accreditation is the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. This unit work extremely hard to remove any barriers between parents and their baby including introducing camp beds so that parents can sleep by their baby.
Read about Royal Devon and Exeter's accreditation
Read Royal Devon and Exeter's final report
Royal Devon and Exeter have since completed the process of re-accreditation, and have achieved their Platinum Award.
Read about Royal Devon and Exeter's re-accreditation
Read Royal Devon and Exeter's re-accreditation report
Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Tunbridge Wells Hospital became the fifth neonatal unit in the UK to gain the Bliss Baby Charter accreditation. Their family-centred care features excellent support for parents and siblings including accommodation for parents to stay on site with their baby.
Read about Tunbridge Well's accreditation
Read Tunbridge Wells Hospital's final report
Tunbridge Wells have since completed the process of re-accreditation, and have achieved their Platinum Award.
Read about Tunbridge Wells re- accreditation
Read Tunbridge Wells re-accreditation report
St Peter's Hospital
St Peter's Hospital is the sixth neonatal unit in the UK to achieve Bliss Baby Charter accreditation. This unit focuses on providing holistic support to parents through the use of a family support coordinator, interpreter and safeguarding lead.
Read about St Peter's accreditation
Read St Peter's Hospital's final report
Barnsley Hospital
Barnsley Hospital became the ninth neonatal unit to be Bliss Baby Charter accredited in March 2020. The unit had excellent examples of developmental care and initiatives to ensure parents were involved in their baby's care as much as possible.
Read about Barnsley's accreditation
Read Barnsley Hospital's final report
Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital
The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital has become the first unit to be accredited for the second time. This unit runs regular parent group sessions covering a range of topics like, positive touch to increase parent confidence.
Read about Queen Alexandra's accreditation
Read Queen Alexandra's final report
Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital have since completed the process of reaccreditation, and achieved their Platinum Award
Read about Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital re-accreditation
Read Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital re-accreditation report
St Richard's Hospital
The local neonatal unit (LNU) at St Richard's Hospital became Bliss Baby Charter accredited in January 2022. This unit has a lovely sibling activity book which really involves siblings in the neonatal journey, and the unit showed a consistency of care to all families.
Read about St Richard's accreditation
Read St Richard's accreditation report
Luton and Dunstable Hospital
The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Luton and Dunstable Hospital became Bliss Baby Charter accredited in January 2022. The staff were really supportive and encouraging of both families and each other, and they also have excellent psychosocial support available to families.
Read about Luton and Dunstable's accreditation
Read Luton and Dunstable's accreditation report
Conquest Hospital
The Special Care Baby Unit at Conquest Hospital achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in March 2022. Parents commented on the excellent support for and promotion of skin to skin and the excellent array of information and resources available to support families was also evident.
Read about Conquest's accreditation
Read Conquest's accreditation report
Warwick Hospital
Warwick Hospital Special Care Baby Unit achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in May 2022. The excellent feeding support and welcoming, family-centred environment were amongst the achievements noted during their assessment.
Read about Warwick's accreditation
Read Warwick's accreditation report
West Suffolk Hospital
West Suffolk neonatal unit achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in August 2022. The dedicated community team offer a smooth transition to home for families, and the unit also benefits from extensive support from their psychologists who works with both families and staff.
Read about West Suffolk's accreditation
Read West Suffolk's accreditation report
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
Norfolk and Norwich Neonatal Intensive Care Unit achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in August 2022. The unit offers a range of accommodation to enable families to stay as close as possible to their babies, and partners are equally involved in care giving and decision making.
Read about Norfolk and Norwich's accreditation
Read about Norfolk and Norwich's accreditation report
Royal Surrey County Hospital
Royal Surrey Neonatal Unit achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in September 2022. The unit has developed comprehensive standard operating procedures, that all include parental involvement in decision- making and planning, whilst leads in developmental care and feeding help ensure excellent parental involvement in care is also consistently supported by staff.
Read about Royal Surrey County's accreditation
Read Royal Surrey County's accreditation report
Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow
The Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in September 2022. The unit has created a multidisciplinary HUG group, involving parents, that help support and drive service improvement for the unit, and offers Child in Mind training that is focussed on the long term outcomes of babies post discharge.
Read about the Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow's accreditation
Read the Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow's accreditation report
Derriford Hospital Plymouth
Derriford Neonatal Unit achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in May 2023. The unit offers very sensitive, compassionate and comprehensive bereavement care, excellent outreach support and have implemented delivery room cuddles.
Read about Derriford's accreditation
Read Derriford's accreditation report
Queen’s Hospital Burton Neonatal Unit
Queen’s Hospital Neonatal Unit in Burton upon Trent achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in July 2023. The unit offers a comprehensive baby-led feeding offer, excellent outreach support 7 days a week and compassionate bereavement support. There is a very cohesive and passionate senior team who is focused on improving quality.
Read about Queen's Hospital's accreditation
Read Queen's Hospital's accreditation report
New Cross Hospital Neonatal Unit (The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust)
New Cross Hospital Neonatal Unit in Wolverhampton achieved its Bliss Baby Charter accreditation in July 2023. The unit has a passionate and committed team. Strong multidisciplinary team working, involving Allied Health Professionals is evident. Staff strive to promote and ensure parents' involvement in their babies care as well as in service improvement. A number of innovative practice developments and Quality Improvement programmes are being undertaken by the unit.
Read about the New Cross Hospital accreditation
Read the New Cross Hospital accreditation report
Ninewells Hospital Dundee
Ninewells Hospital Neonatal Unit in Dundee achieved its Bliss Baby Charter Accreditation in August 2023. From the award-winning welcoming design and styling of the unit, the friendly culture of the staff who find out about each family and work out how they can achieve their support needs appropriately, and the abundance of future plans and dreams of how they can continue to work to include all families, the unit is clearly family centred.