The purpose of this study was to survey the occurrence of, and obstacles of team training in neonatal life support in Swedish hospitals and to compare university hospitals with other hospitals about the occurrence of, and obstacles of training. The study was directed to all the managers in 37 pediatric wards and data was collected by telephone interviews with aid of a questionnaire. The results showed that 81 % of the Swedish hospitals which has a pediatric ward train the staff in neonatal life support. All of the university hospitals and 74 % of the other hospitals are running training in some form. The methods of training varied and so did the occurrence of training. All the managers’ thought it was important to train neonatal life support. There did not emerge any statistically significant difference between university hospitals and other hospitals concerning the methods of training, evaluation of training or in possibilities and obstacles of training. The conclusions are that training multidisciplinary teams in neonatal life support is going on in most of the Swedish hospitals. The team training in neonatal life support is a quite new method inSweden and several hospitals has started the training this year. Only one third is evaluating their training and that is done twice as often as oral reports compared to written reports. Another conclusion is that there must be a serious discussion about the certification for the professionals who are involved in neonatal life support.