The 18th Introduction to CHD Course will be hosted by Evelina London Children's Hospital and Guy's & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
The week is run collaboratively by three different London Cardiac Centres:
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This annual course is aimed at all nurses and allied healthcare professionals involved in the care of children and adults with congenital heart disease. The day on the 7th of July focuses on the transition to and care of adults with congenital heart disease which is the natural outcome and challenge for the majority of children with CHD.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
Key issues covered include:
FORMAT:
This highly focused course combines presentations, interactive lectures, case studies and examples of good practice, parents and representatives from the associated not-for-profit organisations, together with the opportunity to participate in Q & A sessions.
COURSE MATERIALS:
Delegates will receive comprehensive course materials in an electronic format at the end of the course.
Evelina London Children's Hospital
ELCH is at the heart of a network of children's health services in Lambeth and Southwark and across south east England.
It is located on the St. Thomas' Hospital site and is part of Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. The award-winning state-of-the art building opened in 2005 and was the first new children's hospital to open in London in more than 100 years. Involving children and their families in the planning and design has resulted in a truly iconic building, which has a unique calming environment and the best medical facilities, suitable for children with less serious conditions as well as those with complex and life-changing medical needs
Our children's services extend to the care that local children receive in the community. This includes everything from health visitors to specialist input to prevent children with long-term health conditions needing hospital care.
We provide a comprehensive range of children's healthcare services, so that we are able to look after patients from antenatal diagnosis through childhood, into adolescence and into adult life. We are very special because we have both a maternity unit and a children's hospital on the St. Thomas' site. This means newborn babies are able to get the specialist help they need on the same hospital site as their mothers.
At the centre of several specialist children's health networks, the Evelina London coordinates complex care for children across the South Thames region, working in partnership with King's College Hospital, the Royal Marsden Hospital and St. George's Hospital. This means that we ensure patients get a full range of specialised inpatient and outpatient services close to where they live at their local hospital.
Evelina London provides a focus for child health across King's Health Partners - consisting of Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
By working closely with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at South London and Maudsley we can meet the mental as well as physical health needs of the children and young people we care for.
Jointly with our academic partner King's College London we are able to provide exceptional education and training opportunities for staff, and to bring the latest treatments to our patients at the earliest opportunity through clinical research and patient studies.
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Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
RBHT is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We work from two sites, Royal Brompton Hospital in Chlesea, West London and Harefield Hospital near Uxbridge.
OUR EXPERTISE:
RBHT is a partnership of two specialist hospitals which are known throughout the world for their expertise, standard of care and research success. As a specialist Trust we only provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease. Our doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff are experts in their chosen field, and many more move to our hospitals from thorughout the UK, Europe and beyond, so they can develop their particular skills even further. We carry out some of the most complicated surgery, and offer some of the sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world and treat patients from all over the UK and around the globe.
OUR RESEARCH:
We have a worldwide reputation for heart and lung research. We work on numerous research projects that bring benefits to patient in the form of new, more effective and efficient treatments for heart and lung disease. We are also responsible for medical advances taken up across the NHS and beyond. Each year between 500-600 papers by researchers associated with the Trustare published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine. Our main partner is the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College, London. We run additionalresearch projects with other hospitals and universities in the UK and abroad.
USEFUL FACTS:
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
GOSH is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare.
Together with our research partner, the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), we form the UK's only academic biomedical research centre specialising in paediatrics.
Since its formation in 1852, the hospital has been dedicated to children's healthcare and to finding new and better ways to treat childhood illnesses.
WHAT WE DO:
Great Ormond Street Hospital receives 252,389 outpatient visits and 43,778 inpatient visits every year (figures from 2016/17). Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 63 different clinical specialties at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. More than half of our patients come from outside London and GOSH is the largest paediatric centre in the UK for:
OUR MISSION AND VALUES:
OUR 'ALWAYS' VALUES:
Four overarching values came out from the analysis to reflect and reinforce the Trust’s mission and commitment to put children at the heart of everything we do, ‘The child first and always’, we are calling them Our Always Values. So we will:
• Always be Welcoming
• Always be Helpful
• Always be Expert
• Always be One Team
In addition to the overarching values, we have drawn on the survey information to identify standards for each value as well as examples of the behaviours that people want to see more of/less of in support of each value.
HISTORY:
In 1852, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) opened with just 10 beds, and was the first hospital in the UK to offer dedicated inpatient care to children.
From world firsts in surgery and state-of-the-art buildings to pioneering research and celebrity support, see some of our highlights and the people who have made them happen.