Paediatrics - South West Peninsula Deanery
Paediatrics - South West Peninsula Deanery
Paediatrics - South West Peninsula Deanery
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General Information<br />
Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust is the main acute health provider for over 385,000 of<br />
Cornwall’s 500,000 residents. Community Paediatric Services are provided for the<br />
whole of Cornwall for children aged 0-16 years (a population in excess of 100,000).<br />
The Child Health Directorate is responsible for acute paediatric services for all<br />
children and young people up to their 17th birthday and is based at the Royal<br />
Cornwall Hospital (Treliske).<br />
The Department offers wide experience of the whole range of General <strong>Paediatrics</strong><br />
including high dependency and intensive care. Acute admissions into the recently<br />
opened 50 bedded Children’s Unit are distributed between 2 wards with an additional<br />
14-bedded specialist surgical ward. A separate medical day case (4 beds) and<br />
outpatient facility opened in December 2000.<br />
Recent departmental activity included 7,583 admissions, 2,080 new outpatients and<br />
7,816 follow ups.<br />
The 20-cot (7 ICU) Neonatal Unit serves some 4,000 deliveries per annum. Recent<br />
activity levels were over 400 admissions with some 70 infants ventilated. The<br />
Neonatal Unit is capable of high frequency oscillation ventilation and the use of nitric<br />
oxide. One of the Obstetricians has a special interest in foetal medicine. There are<br />
good ultrasound diagnostic facilities.<br />
There are 4 Community Assessment Units with a completely new and updated<br />
facility on the Treliske site. There are 4 special schools. Cornwall has a large number<br />
of children with special needs integrated into mainstream schools. Cornwall has<br />
been at the forefront of developing collaborative services for children subject to<br />
abuse or neglect and the multidisciplinary Joint Consultancy Team based on the<br />
Treliske site is the focus of this collaboration.<br />
Medical Staff<br />
Consultants<br />
Hospital Based<br />
Dr John Ellis<br />
Dr Nicki Gilbertson<br />
Dr Sian Harris<br />
Dr Paul Munyard<br />
Dr Yadlapalli Kumar<br />
Dr Ann Prendiville<br />
Dr Matt Thorpe<br />
Dr Katie Mallam<br />
Dr Chris Williams<br />
Dr Andrew Collinson<br />
Dr Simon Robertson<br />
Special Interest(s)<br />
Cardiology, Neonatology<br />
Oncology<br />
Haematology & Oncology, Epilepsy<br />
Neonatology, Metabolic<br />
Neonatology, Endocrinology<br />
Respiratory diseases and Cystic Fibrosis<br />
Education,Gastroenterology, Neonatology<br />
Diabetes<br />
Nephrology, Trust F2 Lead<br />
Neonatology, Immunology, Research<br />
Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis<br />
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