Paediatrics - South West Peninsula Deanery

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Truro General Information Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust is the main acute health provider for over 385,000 of Cornwall’s 500,000 residents. Community Paediatric Services are provided for the whole of Cornwall for children aged 0-16 years (a population in excess of 100,000). The Child Health Directorate is responsible for acute paediatric services for all children and young people up to their 17th birthday and is based at the Royal Cornwall Hospital (Treliske). The Department offers wide experience of the whole range of General Paediatrics including high dependency and intensive care. Acute admissions into the recently opened 50 bedded Children’s Unit are distributed between 2 wards with an additional 14-bedded specialist surgical ward. A separate medical day case (4 beds) and outpatient facility opened in December 2000. Recent departmental activity included 7,583 admissions, 2,080 new outpatients and 7,816 follow ups. The 20-cot (7 ICU) Neonatal Unit serves some 4,000 deliveries per annum. Recent activity levels were over 400 admissions with some 70 infants ventilated. The Neonatal Unit is capable of high frequency oscillation ventilation and the use of nitric oxide. One of the Obstetricians has a special interest in foetal medicine. There are good ultrasound diagnostic facilities. There are 4 Community Assessment Units with a completely new and updated facility on the Treliske site. There are 4 special schools. Cornwall has a large number of children with special needs integrated into mainstream schools. Cornwall has been at the forefront of developing collaborative services for children subject to abuse or neglect and the multidisciplinary Joint Consultancy Team based on the Treliske site is the focus of this collaboration. Medical Staff Consultants Hospital Based Dr John Ellis Dr Nicki Gilbertson Dr Sian Harris Dr Paul Munyard Dr Yadlapalli Kumar Dr Ann Prendiville Dr Matt Thorpe Dr Katie Mallam Dr Chris Williams Dr Andrew Collinson Dr Simon Robertson Special Interest(s) Cardiology, Neonatology Oncology Haematology & Oncology, Epilepsy Neonatology, Metabolic Neonatology, Endocrinology Respiratory diseases and Cystic Fibrosis Education,Gastroenterology, Neonatology Diabetes Nephrology, Trust F2 Lead Neonatology, Immunology, Research Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis 12
Community Based Dr Roger Jenkin Dr Jo Lewis Dr John Lewis Dr Eleanor McCartney Dr Debbie Galbraith (SCMO) Dr Julia Harvey Neurodisability Social Paediatrics / education Population Paediatrics Looked After Children Child Protection Consultant Community Paediatrics Trainees ST1-2 6 ST4-8 7 Postgraduate Education There is a modern Postgraduate Centre on the Hospital site. It has a well-stocked medical library with well-qualified full time librarians and support staff. There is on line information retrieval services as well as Medline, Cochrane Library and British Nursing Index on CD-Rom. There is Internet access both from the Library and elsewhere in the hospital available to all junior medical staff. Computers for general use are available within the library itself and also within the Child Health Directorate. Within the Department there are regular weekly clinical meetings including one with Clinical Imaging and also a Journal Club. In addition, there are regular daily teaching sessions for trainees. Trainees also attend the monthly regional teaching sessions. There are monthly perinatal mortality and separate perinatal morbidity meetings. Audit and Clinical Governance meetings alternate bi-monthly. There is a hospital induction programme for all staff and a specific departmental induction programme for trainees on taking up their appointments. The Department is committed to the development of training opportunities for all grades of staff. RCPCH District Tutor - Dr Matt Thorpe 13
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