Locum Consultant Anaesthetist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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INTRODUCTION The Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provides medical and surgical adult cardiothoracic services to the people of Merseyside, North Wales, Isle of Man, parts of Lancashire and Cheshire.

This catchment area has a population of over 2.8 million people.

The hospital is one of the largest of its kind in the country and performs around 2000 major cardiac procedures and 700 major thoracic procedures per annum.

The full range of services for adult cardiothoracic surgical patients (with the exception of transplantation) is provided and this includes an expanding service for adult congenital, major aortic surgery, with mínimally invasive robotic cardiac and thoracic surgery.

The trust also performs over 150 transcatheter aortic valve insertion procedures per year. The hospital has seen a great deal of development in the last few years.

As a result of major capital investment, we are able to provide: 180 medical and surgical beds: 26 day case beds 12 bed cystic fibrosis ward 30 Critical care beds 8 dedicated cardiothoracic surgical operating theatres Endoscopy suite Recovery room X-ray department with a multi-channel spiral CT Scanner and MRI scanner Pulmonary function and oesophageal laboratory 5 cardiac catheterisation laboratories One dedicated pacing theatre and a shared pacing/aneurysm theatre Newly refurbished research laboratories Hospital electronic patient record system (EPR) Da Vinci Robotic surgery Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital continues to invest in infrastructure with a recently renovated Catheterisation Suite and Cystic Fibrosis Ward and construction of a new main entrance.

MEDICAL STAFFING Anaesthetists Dr J Ratnasingham Divisional Medical Director (Clinical Services) Dr C Quarterman College Tutor Dr O Al-Rawi Clinical Director Anaesthesia Dr N Coulson Clinical Director Critical Care Dr A Bhawnani Dr J Kendall Dr F Faraz Dr B Gutowska Dr D Mayhew Dr B Murray Dr K Palmer Dr T Ridgway Dr I Shaban Dr P Wolski Dr A Hill Dr O Chambers Dr E Houston Dr M Evans Consultant Cardiologists Dr R A Perry Medical Director Dr J L Morris Divisional Medical Director - Medicine Dr W L Morrison Dr D R Ramsdale Prof R H Stables Dr N D Palmer Dr J D Mills Clinical Lead - Community Dr C Appleby Clinical Lead - Intervention Dr D J Wright Dr A Rao Clinical Lead EP/Devices Dr D M Todd Dr J E P Waktare Dr D Gupta Dr R L Snowdon Dr S Modi Dr M El-Kadri Dr P Velavan Dr M Naffati Dr A Khalatbari Dr T A Fairbairn Clinical Lead Cardiac Diagnostics Dr C Hammond Dr S Aggarwal Joint Cardiology Posts Dr M Fisher Dr A Khand Dr M Andron Dr B Kunadian Dr T Ali Dr J Hobbs Dr J Pyatt Dr A Chenzbrau Thoracic Physicians Prof P D O Davies Dr C Hind Dr K Mohan Dr J Greenwood Dr M Walshaw Dr M Ledson Clinical Lead Dr D Wat Dr S Haines Dr D Nazareth Cardiothoracic Surgeons Mr M Kuduvalli Divisional Medical Director Surgery Mr A Muir Clinical Lead Cardiac Surgery Mr O Nawaytou Clinical Lead Aortic surgery Mr M Zeinah College Tutor Surgery Mr M Field Mr P Modi Mr S Shanmuganathan Miss D Harrington Mr A Koshravi Mr N Mediratta Mr J Asante-Siaw Clinical Lead Thoracic Surgery Mr R D Page Mr S Woolley Mr M Smith Mr M Shackcloth Miss S Love ANAESTHETIC TRAINEES There are 9 to 11 specialist trainees from the Mersey Regional Rotation who spend either three or six months at the hospital.

EDUCATION AND AUDIT A strong emphasis is placed on quality improvement work within the department, and all medical staff are expected to carry out regular projects.

There are regular critical incident meetings and combined mortality and morbidity meetings are also held in conjunction with the surgical division.

Medical staff are also required to participate in the Trusts Clinical Governance and Appraisal System. The hospital provides undergraduate medical education for final year students from Liverpool University.

CONFIDENTIALITY All employees must adhere to policies and procedures relating to Information Governance, Confidentiality and Information Security. RISK MANAGEMENT The Trust is committed to approaching the control of risks in a strategic and organised manner.

The post holder must be aware of their individual responsibilities as detailed in the Trusts Risk Management, Health & Safety and Incident policies, and those under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

This includes the reporting of any untoward incident, accident, potential or actual hazard identified.

SAFEGUARDING All staff are required to be familiar with the arrangements for safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and support the organisation in promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Staff working directly with children, young people and vulnerable adults will have a responsibility to ensure safeguarding and promoting their welfare forms an integral part of their duties.

Staff who come into contact with children, vulnerable adults, parents and carers in the course of their work and/or have access to records will have responsibilities