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Paediatric Critical Care
The NTPN PCC Division aims to improve the quality and experience of care for all ages of children requiring critical care, including those potentially vulnerable children in our community, who have complex needs. Our work is collaborative and involves the multi-disciplinary teams in our region and beyond. Much of our work is preventative and educational so that we may identify early, and effectively manage the deteriorating child. The team is divided into local regional representatives to allow for closer working relationships with the local clinical teams. The PCC division is responsible to the NTPN Leadership Team, the North Thames Paediatric Network Board and NHS England.
Meet the Team
Dr Emma-Jane Bould
High Dependency Care Lead
About
Dr Emma-Jane Bould (clinical lead) is a Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and lead for the Deteriorating Paediatric Patient and Paediatric Critical Care Outreach services at the Royal London Hospital. Emma-Jane was part of the QI team that developed the safe transfer of the paediatric patient (STOPP) tool in 2016. In 2017 Emma-Jane was a founder and Chair of the North East London Paediatric Critical Care Clinical Network (NELPCCN). She has been Clinical lead of the PCC division of the NTPN since 2019.
Emma-Jane is currently leading the Network wide review into high dependency care (Level 2) and together with the High Dependency Care review project team, providing expert advice and support to Trusts who are looking to strengthen the Level 2 care that they provide.
Dr Andrew Jones
PICU Clinical Lead
About
Andrew is a consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine at the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS) and Great Ormond Street Hospital having trained in Cambridge and London. He holds an MA in Social and Political Sciences and an MSc in Advanced Paediatrics, and is an honorary lecturer for the Infection, Immunity & Inflammation Department at the University College London Institute for Child Health. His research interests include non-invasive ventilation during critical care transport and the peripheral administration of vasoactive drugs.
Dr Beatrice Allnutt
Martha's Rule Clinical Lead
About
Beatrice is an acute general paediatrician with over 15 years’ experience in emergency medicine, critical care, neonates and general paediatrics. She completed her primary medical qualification at Wits University in South Africa and worked for 3 years as a junior resident there. She completed paediatric training with a SPIN in High Dependency Care in North Thames. She is currently a consultant at Northwick Park Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, where she balances her time between the emergency department and general paediatric clinics. She is the Lead for the Paediatric High Dependency Unit at the trust, a brand new service she developed and successfully delivered in 2023.
Dr Janani Pallawela
Martha's Rule Clinical Lead
About
I have been a Consultant General Paediatrician at North Middlesex since 2013. I have an interest in HDU and worked in London PICUs during my training.
Amy Hunter
Lead Nurse Educator, Lead for Risk & Governance and Interim Lead Nurse PiC
About
With 10 years of paediatric nursing experience, Amy has a particular interest in emergency, high dependency, and intensive care nursing. She has worked in Accident and Emergency, Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU) and for the Children’s Acute Transport service (CATS). Amy has delivered education on a day-to-day basis, as part of her senior nursing role. Amy is a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University (LSBU). She is very passionate about education and enthusiastic to make it equal and accessible to all within the NTPN.
Kate Plunkett-Reed
Network Director
About
Kate has been with the Network since 2019, Kate brings over 8 years’ experience as a senior operational and strategic manager in the NHS, together with over 10 years in the private sector, including working for Kraft Foods in Switzerland as part of their change management team. Her NHS experience includes previous experience in paediatrics with operational, surgical and theatres management experience in an acute hospital setting. She has previously managed operational delivery networks in paediatric burns and paediatric major trauma.
