Burns - Regional Burns Service

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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.

Burns reconstructive surgery

Burns Psychology Service

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.

Email

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.

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