Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust has been providing care for the children and families of Sheffield and surrounding areas for over 125 years and became an NHS Trust in 1992. In August 2006, the Trust became the first dedicated Children’s Trust to achieve foundation status.
The Children’s Hospital is approximately one mile from the City Centre on the South-West aspect of Sheffield, close to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and the Jessop Wing (Obstetrics/Neonates), the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Weston Park Radiotherapy and Oncology Hospital, the Medical School and the main University Campus.
During the last year there has been a considerable development and expansion of services, including a new Day Case Unit, a Dental Suite, a Burns Unit and a substantial office expansion. Currently the hospital supports about 150 beds. All paediatric in-patients in Sheffield are cared for at Sheffield Children’s Hospital (SCH).
There are 6 operating theatres, a procedure room used for the Exodontia service, a 10-bedded Post Anaesthetic Care Unit that has a 2-bedded direct discharge lounge and a 15-bedded Day Case Unit. A further operating theatre has been built to allow for further future expansion.
Surgical services involve general, urology, neonatal, orthopaedic (including spinal and limb reconstruction), plastic, burns, ENT, dental and neurosurgery. Currently there are 6 Consultant General Paediatric Surgeons and 6 Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeons based at SCH.
Medical Services involve oncology, haematology (including bone marrow transplantation), respiratory, neurology, gastroenterology, hepatology, renal, metabolic, metabolic bone disease and immunological paediatrics. The hospital has a separate children’s Emergency Department which has about 45,000 new patients per year. SCH provides secondary paediatrics for the city which comprises about 20% of the population of North Trent.
There is full laboratory and radiological support, including MRI and spiral CT. The radiologists provide an echocardiography service as the cardiology service is based at Leeds General Infirmary.
Paediatric Medicine
The paediatric medical unit as a whole provides a general paediatric medical service, including intensive care. In addition a wide range of subspecialty services are offered. This includes bone disease, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hepatology (including post-transplant work), immunology and infectious disease, metabolic disease, nephrology (in conjunction with the renal service in Nottingham) and respiratory medicine (including cystic fibrosis).
The University Department of Paediatrics is housed in the Stephenson Unit adjacent to the Children’s Hospital, together with laboratories and teaching facilities (lecture theatre, library, and seminar room). Research and clinical interests in the Department include Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Cystic Fibrosis, Metabolism and Liver disease, Bone Disease, Respiratory Paediatrics, Neonatology, Community Paediatrics and Nutrition. Emphasis is placed on a multidisciplinary approach and there is active collaboration with the Departments of Obstetrics, Biomedical Science and Medical Physics in the University and the various NHS Departments in the Children’s Hospital.
The Department has the responsibility for organising clerkships in Paediatrics lasting 8 weeks in the 5th year of the undergraduate curriculum. Trainees are involved in informal teaching of medical students
Jessop Wing
The Jessop Wing of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital contains the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The unit has accreditation for higher specialist training in Neonatal Medicine and takes up to two Neonatal Grid Trainees. Approximately 6-6500 babies are born each year and there are facilities for 12 intensive care, 4 high dependency and 18 special care cots. There are 7 neonatal consultants who also work on a full shift system, 7 advanced nurse practitioners and a neonatal nurse consultant. All neonatal treatments are offered with the exception of cardiac and neonatal ECMO. Modes of respiratory support used are CPAP (including intermittent positve pressure support modes), conventional ventilation, volume guided, HFOV, and nitric oxide. Infants with congenital anomalies requiring urgent neonatal surgery are born and stabilised before transfer to the Children’s Hospital. Frequent the post surgical care of the smallest babies is continued on the neonatal unit with close liaison of the surgeons. The North Trent Neonatal Transport Team, which is nurse lead, is based at the Jessop Wing. This provides an 8 am to 10 pm transport service for the entire region. You may be asked to provide medical support to some transfers, appropriate to your level of training.
Formal teaching occurs in 4 one hour teaching sessions per week on different topics, in some you will have the opportunity to prepare and present education material. There will also be the ability to conduct audit and research.
Clinical duties will rotate through a full shift system, during which you will work in the neonatal intensive care, high dependency, low dependency, provide the postnatal ward support for baby checks and transitional care. You will have the opportunity to attend clinics, which include neonatal follow up, developmental assessment, echocardiography, renal anomalies and socially vulnerable families.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust
The Doncaster Royal Infirmary is a modernised 837 bed acute District General Hospital comprising the specialities of Surgery, Gynaecology, Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT Surgery, Oral Surgery and Orthodontics, Paediatrics, Traumatic and Orthopaedic Surgery, Dermatology and Genito-Urinary Medicine together with a major Accident & Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. There is a large Medical Imaging Department with CAT scanner.
Children’s Hospital
There is a modern purpose built Children’s Hospital providing both in and outpatient facilities with secretarial, Consultant offices and conference / seminar rooms. There are 3 wards with 62 medical and surgical beds including a dedicated Paediatric Assessment Unit where children are seen and admitted or discharged. A Snoezelen facility is available for use by the Child development centre, wards and school.
The Hospital school has developed an important and extended role in the management of individual children with emotional disorders, eg school phobia and psychosomatic disorder.
In addition to paediatric and child developmental clinics, regular joint clinics are held with visiting specialists in Paediatric Surgery, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Neurology and Cystic Fibrosis. Internal joint clinics are also held in Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, Diabetes and Cleft palate management. The Sheffield regional centre holds a fortnightly genetics clinic.
Neonatal Unit
The unit is situated within the Women’s Hospital. There are currently 3,500 deliveries per year in Doncaster. Within the unit there are 20 cots with 4 cots designated intensive care. The unit has state of the art facilities following a major refurbishment. The Neonatal Unit is located in a separate part of the hospital from the paediatric unit.
An out-reach service has been developed to support babies discharged from the unit.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 220,000 and has a complement of 510 beds. There is a block of theatres, together with an intensive therapy unit and other supporting services. Pathology services are provided in purpose built laboratories. There is a medical physics department, a department of physiology measurement and full rehabilitation facilities.
Located just over one mile from Junction 37 of the M1 motorway and only 15 minutes walk from the town centre, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a modern 510 bedded hospital providing the principal acute services for the District. Barnsley Hospital became an NHS Trust on 1 April 1993, since that time it has continued to develop and expand its services and became one of the first Foundation Trusts on 1 February 2005. The Trust is a single site hospital, employing 2,300 staff and operates with a budget of approximately £90 million. It has been awarded Associate Teaching Hospital Status in recognition of its contribution to medical education. The hospital serves a population of approximately 220,000 and the area it services is coterminous with that of the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. Barnsley Primary Care Trust is the Trust’s major purchaser with only 5-10% of activity being purchased by other commissioners.
The hospital has close links with Sheffield University Medical School and undergraduates are taught in the hospital.
The hospital has comprehensive clinical specialities including A&E, Surgical, Medical, Paediatric, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and other specialist units.
The Trust provides excellent facilities including refurbished Medical Illustration Facilities, including a part-time medical photographer, a Clinical Audit Department and a newly well-equipped Postgraduate Medical Education Centre and Medical Library. A Multidisciplinary Team Meeting Room is located in the Post Graduate Centre and facilities are available for projection of histological slides and radiological images together with IT support.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer and has Practice Plus Status for Improving Working Lives.
Other Facilities
There is a Hospital Sports and Social Club located within the grounds of the DGH. Doctors’ sitting room and television is also provided in the medical officers’ residential block. Car parking is provided within the hospital grounds and public transport from and to the town centre is excellent.
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
The Trust provides a comprehensive range of hospital based Medical, Surgical, Paediatric and Obstetrics & Gynaecology specialties. Community and Mental Health Services are provided locally by Rotherham Priority Health Services NHS Trust. The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has premises on a single site, the District General Hospital.
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has a reputation for providing quality healthcare to the local population of South Yorkshire. This is a modern hospital, which has maintained three star status for three years, and has now been awarded Foundation Trust status. This means that Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is part of an elite group of the 30 best performing hospitals in the UK. The hospital also has Associate Teaching Hospital status within the University of Sheffield Medical School.
The Hospital is situated two miles south of Rotherham Town Centre in pleasant suburban surroundings. All acute medical, surgical, paediatric and obstetric and gynaecological services are on this site.
The Hospital is a major provider of high quality healthcare in South Yorkshire and to the local population of above 255,000. The Hospital has over 800 beds on site with excellent modern facilities for Intensive Care, Coronary Care, a Central Theatre Suite, a Day Surgical Unit and Endoscopy Suite.
The clinical services are supported by comprehensive Laboratory facilities, Medical Physics and Diagnostic Radiology Departments. CT and MRI scanning are on site and there is a well-equipped Medical Illustration Department. A vigorous Post Graduate Medical Education Programme is based in the Education Centre in the main Hospital. The Centre affords a lecture theatre and tutorial rooms. The medical Library and information systems are widely acclaimed.
Other Facilities
On the Hospital site there is a Junior Doctors’ Mess and the Hospital has its own Sports and Social Club.