Critical care (ICU)

Critical care services are an essential component of the care of many hospital patients. Patients requiring critical care are amongst the sickest in the hospital and therefore require access to extensive facilities, equipment and experienced staff.

We provide critical care departments at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital, Boston which care for hundreds of seriously ill patients a year and provide very specialised skills.

Patients tend to be admitted after surgery or following an accident or severe illness. They may be unable to breathe on their own or have multiple organ failure. Critical care beds have specialist monitoring equipment and patients requiring intensive care receive one-to-one care, high dependency patients are cared for on a two patients-to-one nurse basis.

The Critical Care Units at Lincoln and Boston  part of the East Midlands Critical Care Network, which also includes hospitals in Leicester, Mansfield, Derby, Burton on Trent and Nottingham.

Lincoln County Hospital

Lincoln has an intensive care unit with 16 beds to manage level 2 (HDU) and level 3 (ICU) critically ill patients.

The Lincoln unit is staffed by a dedicated team of consultant intensivists supported by registrars on rotation from Nottingham and Leicester. The nursing staff are led by a team of senior sisters with support from experienced and motivated staff, who are dedicated to the provision of high quality patient care.

For disabled access information about this department, please see our AccessAble accessibility guide.

Pilgrim Hospital, Boston

Pilgrim Hospital, Boston has an intensive care unit with 9 beds to manage level 2 (HDU) and level 3 (ICU) critically ill patients.

The Boston unit is staffed by a dedicated team of consultant intensivists supported by registrars on rotation from Nottingham and Leicester. The nursing staff are led by a team of senior sisters with support from experienced and motivated staff, who are dedicated to the provision of high quality patient care.

For disabled access information about this department, please see our AccessAble accessibility guide.

Visiting arrangements

Visiting arrangements

Our standard Visiting Hours are 1pm-7.30pm. However we aim to be as flexible as possible in respect to visiting but our main priority is the privacy and safety of our critical care patients.