Burns - Regional Burns Service
The Mid Yorkshire Regional Adults’ Burns Centre and Regional Children’s Burns Unit serve a population of approximately five million people across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
About our service
The Regional Burns Service was established in 1966 at Pinderfields Hospital as the first NHS-funded purpose-built facility in Britain for the treatment of major burns. It serves a population of approximately 5 million people across Yorkshire, Humber and North Lincolnshire and encompasses 16 A&E departments, 7 Walk-In Centres and 11 Minor Injury Units.
Adults
We provide care for adult patients with the most severe injuries and for those requiring the highest level of critical care at Pinderfields Hospital.
Children
Children with burn injuries are also treated at Pinderfields Hospital, but children requiring Level 3 critical care are treated at the Paediatric Burns Centre at The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital or the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Children who are initially treated elsewhere can return to the Pinderfields burn service for step-down and ongoing management when their need for level 3 care has passed.
The aims of the service are:
- to provide a 24/7 specialist service that is patient and family centred.
- to provide a range of therapies/treatments for patients with a thermal injury.
- to promote independence and self-management of patients with burn injuries.
- to facilitate safe discharge in the most appropriate timescale.
- to provide ongoing care and support as required following a patient’s discharge from hospital.
Patients with burn injuries often present with unique clinical, psychological and social challenges; a burn injury can be one of the most severe forms of trauma and therefore treatment in specialised services is required.
Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) approach
We use an effective Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) approach to patient care which is led by Consultant Burn Surgeons and Consultant Anaesthetists/Intensivists and includes a team of:
- adult and paediatric burns nurses
- adult and paediatric clinical psychologists
- occupational therapists
- physiotherapists
- outreach nurses
- play specialists.
All inpatients are reviewed at the daily MDT meetings and treatment plans are agreed and discussed with individuals / or with the parents/carers of children.
There are three scheduled operating sessions per week for the treatment of burns which are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons with along with access to daily plastics surgery trauma lists.
Surgery can be carried out at other times whenever clinical need dictates. Patients who’ve completed their inpatient treatment are reviewed in the community by outreach nurses or during Consultant-led outpatient clinics within the hospital as appropriate.
Services provided
Adult burns service
Regional Burn Centre provides all levels of care, including care of burn injuries of the highest severity requiring complex critical care.
Paediatric (children’s) burns service
Regional Burn unit cares for moderate severity injuries that do not require critical care.
Both services are staffed by multidisciplinary teams that include surgeons, intensivists, nurses, anaesthetists, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, paediatricians, microbiologists, dietitians specialised in burn care.
Scar treatments that are offered include cosmetic camouflage, derma-roller treatment, micro-needling, tattooing, pressure garment therapy, prosthetics, steroid injections and surgery.
We have a fully integrated telemedicine service for acute assessments, scar therapy and scar clinics.
Useful resources
Family Burns Club
Following a traumatic burn injury, recovery may include a number of dressing changes, physiotherapy, regular massage, possible reconstructive surgery and having to wear a pressure garment for up to 2 years.
The Family Burns club will aim to provide a service to assist families with children and young adults between 16/18 to 25 nationally, face challenges in the recovery from burn injury. This is by supporting the physical, social and psychological needs of young burn survivors and families through a variety of events and family activities.
Dansfund for Burns
Offering practical help to burns survivors in the UK. You can email info@adultburnsupportuk.org for enquiries or visit the website to check where existing support groups are nationally.
Tel: 01344 622 977
Email info@dansfundforburns.org
Adult Burn Support UK
Offer a weekly online Live Chat every Wednesday 7.30-9.00pm (UK time) for those affected by burn injury to share experiences or discuss any issues they may be having in relation to burns. The link for the live chat is: https://adultburnsupportuk.org/live-chat/
Aims to provide support and rehabilitation for burns survivors.
The Katie Piper Foundation
Telephone: 07496 827266
Enquiries: 07903 187309. Please leave a message and they will respond as soon as possible (Monday to Friday).
MY Hospitals Charity
Aim to benefit patients or towards the benefit of staff, resulting in improved patient care.
Changing Faces
Provides advice, support and psychosocial services for everyone with a scar, mark or condition on their face or body that makes them look different. They offer counselling; support for children in Yorkshire; self-help information.
Telephone: 0300 012 0275 (Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm)
Childline
Childline is free, confidential and available any time, day or night.
National confidential helpline phone: 0800 1111
Email - sign up on their website
Access 1-1 Counsellor online chat
Childline is here to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through.
Young Minds
Whether you want to know more about how you're feeling, get information about a mental health condition or know what support is available to you, Young Minds have online guides that can help.
Supporting children with burns
A website designed with parents and carers, specifically to support families of children who have had a burn injury.
Video content
Please visit our Pinderfields Regional Burns Service Youtube channel.
Patient information leaflets
Physiotherapy and exercise after a burn injury.pdf
Occupational Therapy after a burn injury.pdf
Holidays and sunshine.pdf[pdf] 172KB
Preventing burns and first aid.pdf
Skin camouflage .pdf [pdf] 173KB
Returning to school after a burn injury.pdf
What to expect if your burn has healed within 2 weeks .pdf[pdf] 61KB
Consent - giving your permission before treatment or tests.pdf [pdf] 383KB
How to tell us about a concern make a complaint or express your apppreciation.pdf [pdf] 212KB
The burns service team
Consultant Burn Surgeons
Mr Umair Anwar
Miss Orla Austin
Miss Ciara Bowers
Miss Preetha Muthayya (Clinical Lead)
Mr Alan Phipps
Head of Clinical Service for Burns and Plastic Surgery
Mr Stephen Southern (Head of Clinical Service)
Consultants - Burns Anaesthesia and Intensive care
Dr Andrew Carter (Lead Burns Intensivist)
Dr Paul Clark
Dr Selin Kabadayi
Dr Raj Sandhu
Dr Brendan Sloan
Dr Jamie Yarwood
Lead Paediatrician for Burns
Dr Natasha DeVere
Clinical Psychologists
Dr David Aaron, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Service Lead – Adult
Dr Rachael Clarke, Senior Clinical Psychologist, – Adult
Dr Helena Holmes- McCoid, Senior Clinical Psychologist – Adult
Physiotherapy
Mrs Ann Sanderson, Lead Physiotherapist
Imogen Lee, Physiotherapist
Mrs Dawn Clipsham, Physio and OT Technical Assistant
Occupational Therapy
OT Leanne Dowding, Occupational Therapist
OT Alison Garbett, Occupational Therapist
OT Amy Owens, Occupational Therapist
Therapy Technical Instructors
Dawn Clipsham, Therapy technical instructor
Matron
Kelly Chesham Matron for Burns, Plastics & Urology
Adult Burns Nurses
Senior Sister Claire Swales, Ward Manager for Burns
Sister Lauren Ashworth
Charge Nurse Paul Blakemore
Registered Nurse Jeanette Bruce
Registered Nurse Ruth Prescott
Registered Nurse Anna Maslog
Registered Nurse Sarah Mort
Registered Nurse Amy Voellner
Registered Nurse Kelly Carroll
Registered Nurse Susan Dowson
Registered Nurse Lyn Wind
Registered Nurse Lisa Froggatt
Registered Nurse Laura Grandidge
Registered Nurse Biny Kurian
Registered Nurse Samantha Shackleton
Registered Nurse Bethany Smith
Registered Nurse Charlotte Swift
Registered Nurse Veronica Wagstaff
Registered Nurse Matilda Willow
Registered Nurse Lyn Wind
Registered Nurse Yvonne Wood
Nursing Associate Olivia Brown
Nursing Associate Jossy Okougbo Daniel
Nursing Associate Nicole Shaw
Healthcare Assistant Shelly Brook
Healthcare Assistant Jijo Chazhukaran
Healthcare Assistant Jane Kaye
Healthcare Assistant Amy Maddison
Healthcare Assistant Jade Riley
Healthcare Assistant Molly Walker
Healthcare Assistant Sheran Wass
Paediatric Burns Nurses
Senior Sister Marie Jones-Young, Ward Manager for Burns
Sister Stephanie Raynor, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sister Hayley Byford
Sister Gulnaz Hussain
Sister Gemma Ledgard
Sister Emma Stone
Registered Nurse Amy Butterworth
Registered Nurse Lauren Chiles
Registered Nurse Chloe Giles
Registered Nurse Samantha Gratty
Registered Nurse Kayleigh Kinsey
Registered Nurse Iona Macfarlane
Registered Nurse Megan Scott
Nursing Associate Hayley Rowley
Nursing Associate Emily Wilson
Healthcare Assistant Adetouni Babatunde
Healthcare Assistant Gemma Cartright
Healthcare Assistant Sharon Knowles
Healthcare Assistant Nisa Kurian
Healthcare Assistant Nanci Morrell
Healthcare Assistant Athira Rajendran
Healthcare Assistant Caitlin Smith
Play Specialist
Tracy Foster
Burns Complex Discharge Co-ordinator
Sister Yvonne Wood
Northern Burn Care Network Educators
Sister Veronica Wagstaff
Sister Yvonne Wood
Burns Outreach
Sister Nicole Rayner
Sister Lisa Froggatt
Sister Milena Bradley
Specialist Theatre Staff
Mark Norton, Senior Operating Department Practitioner
Matryna Pluta, Trauma Plastics and Burns Clinical Specialist
Burns ICU Research
Sister Sarah Buckley
Pressure garment technical instructors
Anne McQueen, Pressure garment technical instructor
Avril Grittas Gritsas, Pressure garment technical instructor
David Scott, Pressure garment technical instructor
Administrators
Julie Bennett Administrator
Jacinta Flanagan, Ward Clerk for Adult Burns
Karen Leadbetter Administrator Assistant
Nicola Mills, Ward Clerk for Adult Burns
Julie Moxon, IBID Data Co-ordinator
Kevin Rattray, Ward Clerk for Paediatric Burns
Facilities staff – Adult burns
Chantelle Blackburn
Sarah Crossley
Tracey Thewson
Bev Varley
Facilities staff – Paediatric burns
Janice Knapper