Dr Ravindra BhatClinician

Biography

Dr Ravindra Bhat is Lead Consultant Neonatologist for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Clinical Lead for Neonatal Services at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London. King's College Hospital operates a Level 3 tertiary neonatal intensive care unit, receiving transfers of sick babies from across south-east England, and is expanding capacity through a £13 million investment. Bhat has spoken publicly about antenatal referral pathways, highlighting that mothers are referred to the unit when problems are identified on routine maternity scans. He has co-authored peer-reviewed research, including a 2021 retrospective cohort study published in the journal Children examining the impact of 24-hour resident consultant cover on neonatal mortality and clinical outcomes at the King's NICU between 2010 and 2020. His research profile is listed on the King's College London research portal.

References

1. 1.Caring for our smallest and youngest patients | King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust — Establishes Dr Bhat's title as Lead Consultant Neonatologist for NICU at King's College Hospital and his public-facing commentary on neonatal referral pathways and service expansion
2. 2.Introduction of 24 h Resident Consultant Cover in a Tertiary Neonatal Unit—Impact on Mortality and Clinical Outcomes (Children, 2021) — Establishes Dr Bhat as a named co-author on peer-reviewed neonatal research affiliated with King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
3. 3.Ravindra Bhat – King's College London Research Portal — Confirms Dr Bhat's research affiliation and lists multiple published outputs linked to neonatal medicine at King's
4. 4.King's College Hospital NHS Neonatal vacancy information pack (Trac Jobs) — Lists Dr Ravindra Bhat as Clinical Lead for neonatal services at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Expertise

Cited on

• Maternity & neonatal

Stated areas of expertise

• Neonatal intensive care
• Preterm infant care
• Neonatal unit service design
• Resident consultant models
• Surgical neonatal conditions
• Antenatal referral pathways

Notable achievements

• Co-authored a 2021 peer-reviewed study in Children (MDPI) on the introduction of 24-hour resident consultant cover in a tertiary neonatal unit at King's College Hospital, covering 4,778 infants over 2010–2020. Source ↗
• Listed as Clinical Lead for neonatal services at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in published NHS recruitment documents. Source ↗
• Featured as named clinical spokesperson on neonatal service expansion plans in King's College Hospital Trust news coverage, March 2024. Source ↗

What they’ve said

• “We appreciate that it can be a very worrying time for parents whose babies may need specialist care on our unit. We hope that being able to visualise the unit prior to visiting in person can provide some reassurance. We want to do as much as we can to make the experience of being in a NICU less stressful and helping families to feel more in control of their experience.”

  Clinical Lead Neonatal Services at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Maternity & neonatal · 12 Aug 2026 · Virtual 3D Tour of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at King’s ↗

Source references

1. Virtual 3D Tour of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at King’skch.nhs.uk · 12 Aug 2026

Contact & links

• Staff pagehttps://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ravindra-bhat(c75a6632-5c4b-468a-8951-5187de40c4c6).html
• Websitehttps://www.kch.nhs.uk/services/services-a-to-z/neonatal/
• Press office phone020 3299 9000published here ↗

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