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SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Location

The hospital is a 5 minute walk from the Sheffield Teaching Hospital base. A new car park has made parking much easier.

Sheffield Childrens Hospital
Western Bank
S10 2TH

ABOUT

SCH is a a dedicated Children’s Teaching Hospital, with trauma centre status, on-site Paediatric A+E, PICU, HDU, Paediatric Acute and Chronic Pain Teams as well as a full spectrum of medical and surgical paediatric services.

Training opportunities are wide and varied and include: paediatric general surgery, ENT, orthopaedics, plastics, opthalmics, oncology, and paediatric emergency theatre work. More complex paediatric anaesthesia areas include: neonatal surgery, paediatric airway, complex orthopaedics, paediatric oncology, paediatric spinal/scoliosis surgery, paediatric neurosurgery and paediatric burns.

There are currently 16 consultant paediatric anaesthetists in the department. The theatre complex includes 7 theatres, a procedure room and PACU, with nearby GA MRI and CT areas. Building is in progress for 2 new theatres to include an intra-operative MRI capacity for paediatric neurosurgery. There is an active Paediatric Pain team, and regular multidisciplinary Paediatric Chronic pain clinics.

The opportunity to work in a dedicated, stand alone paediatric hospital gives unrivalled opportunity to enhance paediatric skills and knowledge

ROTA

The anesthetic rota is currently 1:...

TEACHING

There is a strong in-theatre Consultant based teaching ethos at SCH. Teaching and training opportunities include an in-house MEPA course, a curriculum based tutorial programme, weekly early morning Journal Club as well as an established APLS teaching base within the department. 

ADVANCED MODULES

An "Advanced Module in Paediatric Anaesthesia" is available for ST7 year - applications to module lead

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

The Children’s provides a breadth of paediatric anaesthesia experience and training in a dedicated paediatric environment, with experience ranging from neonates to adolescents, from elective day-case surgery in healthy infants and children, to complex co-morbidity and surgical procedures in highly subspecialty areas of paediatric practise

The department won the prestigious Regional Teaching Trophy in 2013

What the trainees say: (HEYH 2015 Deanery report)

• "Very supportive consultants and department"
• "Consultants are very supportive and eager to train. Very good teaching programme"
• "Very supported and enjoyable department to work in"
• "Very supportive department, both consultants, theatre staff and other specialties. Allowed me to practise with increasingly distant supervision and gain confidence"

NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL

LOCATION

Herries Rd, Sheffield, S5 7AU

0114 2734343

ABOUT

This is the largest of the South Yorkshire hospitals and is one of the three Yorkshire Major Trauma Centres. It provides secondary and tertiary care to probably a million people in Sheffield and the surrounding areas. It is an adult only hospital - Children being seen in the Sheffield Childrens Hospital

NGH has  over 1100 beds in a large site in the north of the city. The hospital provides Colorectal, Upper GI, Renal, Plastic, Orthopaedic, Dental, Cardiac, Vascular, Trauma, Transplant and day surgical services. There are over 100 consultants anaesthetists working for Sheffield Teaching hospitals - many working cross site.

Several top consultant anaesthetists are seconded to work on the Yorkshire Critical Care Team - flying to major trauma throughout yorkshire in the Yorkshire air ambulance

INTENSIVE CARE

A state of the art 36 bedded critical care department that contains ITU, HDU and a post operative surgical unit (POSU).

OBSTETRIC

(nil - provided at Royal Hallamshire)

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

We have 17 main theatres in the main complex along with 3 day surgery theatres, 5 Cardiothoracic theatres in a separate unit and a stand alone spinal injuries theatre. 

Training opportunities exist providing Anaesthesia for

• cardiothoracic
• colorectal & upper GI
• vascular
• major trauma
• orthopaedics (primary and revision: limb, spines)
• plastic and burns surgery
• spinal injuries.
• vascular Angiography
• transplant

Ample opportunity exists to practice emergency anaesthesia as there are typically 2 emergency theatres and 2 trauma theatres running simultaneously in daytime hours

A lot of work is performed under regional anaesthesia and we have a number of skilled operators in the use of ultrasound for this. 

There is a weekly journal club and block club (regional anesthesia). There is also an excellent monthly regional registrar teaching program – ST Anaesthetic Regional Teaching (START)

ADVANCED MODULES

A number of advanced modules (available on application) have recently been introduced

• Regional Anaesthesia
• Vascular Anaesthesia
• Cardiothoracic anaesthesia
• Major Trauma and Orthopaedics
• ICM
• Pain
• Peri-operative medicine
• General, Uro, Gynae – with time spent at the hallamshire
• Transfer medicine being developed currently by Dr Chris Press

College Tutor: Dr Phil Bonnett

Deputy College Tutor: Dr Ben Edwards

What the trainees liked (2015 HEYH Survey)

• "Breadth of work. Some inspirational colleagues"
• "Ample opportunity for regional blocks and a good mix of cases including trauma"
• "Excellent training opportunities during clinical work"
• "Experience in managing complex and sick patients"
• "Support from seniors"
• "I felt well supported in capitalising upon learning opportunities. Equally I was allowed to take responsibility commensurate with my level of training"
• "All the consultants I meet are kind and enthusiastic teachers. It is a friendly working environment despite being massive"
• "Variety of cases. Excellent consultant support both in attached lists and on-call"