Burns - Regional Burns Service

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.

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.

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.

Consultant Burn Surgeons

Mr Umair Anwar

Miss Orla Austin

Miss Preetha Muthayya (Clinical Lead)

Mr Alan Phipps

Acute Burns

Miss Elizabeth George

Mr William Holmes

Miss Sharmila Jivan