Doctors at NETS

Doctors working in newborn and pædiatric retrieval are employed by NETS or seconded from a children's hospital or perinatal referral hospital. They are registrars in training (or qualified) as pædiatricians, neonatologists, pædiatric emergency physicians, pædiatric intensivists or anæsthetists. There is a formal training program; including a regular weekly schedule. The accompanying photograph shows a registrar in action on a retrieval.

The Clinical Fellow at NETS in 2007 is Adrienne Lynn. The visiting Consultant is Dr Hilary Whyte.

Doctors work in NETS for a 6 or 12 month contract. This provides medical retrieval experience concentrated in a relatively short time. Previously, medical retrieval was undertaken by registrars working at one of several tertiary hospitals and dispatched when required. This diluted their experience. As a result, were unlikely to be exposed to the variety and quantity of serious medical problems in children and babies. This photograph shows a registrar undertaking her first retrieval, under supervision of a consultant.

Consultant Medical Staff:

• Dr Andrew Berry (Director)
• Dr Christopher Webber (Deputy Director)
• Dr Sarah Dalton (Staff Specialist)
• Dr Fiona Fleming (Staff Specialist)
• Dr Tom Grattan-Smith (Staff Specialist)

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