King's College London

Aims

To advance knowledge in the field of paediatric transport medicine and advanced nurse practitioners though education, quality improvement and research.

Focus areas

Transport medicine

• Factors affecting reduction in conversion of critical care referral to critical care admission in the Southeast of England.
• Reviewing the impact of a 20-year programme of paediatric critical care education and training to district general hospital teams.
• Health care costs and implications of delayed mobilisation and prolonged stabilisation times in a paediatric critical care transport service.
• Safe triage and advice in a paediatric critical care transport service.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Development

• Deliver professionally and academically recognised specialised course; the Paediatric Critical Care Advanced Clinical Practice (PCCACP) a three-year master’s course, largest in UK.
• Study the impact of PCCACP development on the composition of paediatric critical care retrieval teams in the UK.
• Parental experience of provision of palliative care discharge by PCCACP.
• Role of PCCACPs in team and service development.

Leadership

• Manal Alasnag, Lead for South Thames Retrieval Service- biggest paediatric intensive care transport service in UK. Studying the role of transport teams for advice calls regarding critically ill children. PCCACP Course Moule 4 Lead.

Theme Membership and Internal collaborators

• Shelley Riphagen, Evelina paediatric intensive care lead, PCCACP Course Director, Module 2 Lead.
• Cecilia Korb, PICU consultant, PCCACP Course Module 1 Lead.
• James Diviney, PICU consultant, South Thames Retrieval Service Deputy Lead.