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 Andrew Jones

PICU Clinical Lead

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 Emma-Jane Bould

High Dependency Care Lead

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. 

Amy Hunter

Lead Nurse Educator, Lead for Risk & Governance and Interim Lead Nurse PiC

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

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.

Please feel free to contact the relevant clinical lead, network director or lead nurse directly about any concerns that you have relating to Paediatric Critical Care in your region or about any of the relevant work streams they are responsible for. Please also get in touch with any ideas that you may have, or if you would like to get involved.

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