Children's Acute Transport Service

CATS is the busiest Paediatric Intensive Care Transport Service in the UK and covers the 50 District General Hospitals in the North Thames and East Anglia regions of England.

Paediatric Intensive Care Transport Services are designed to provide the safe and rapid transfer of these children to a regional PICU.

CATS also provide a paediatric intensive care transport service with Great Ormond Street Hospital for retrieval of children with Vein of Galen malformations requiring radiological ablation.

For many of these urgent long distance transfers, the team works with the aircraft and the crews of HM Coastguard helicopters.

A team of full-time CATS nurses is responsible for service delivery, co-ordination of the outreach education program, and in-house training.

CATS is the subject of an eight-part (8 x 30 minute) series called Children's Emergency, produced by September Films for BBC One.