Our Partners

PIER collaborates with a number of multidisciplinary groups and initiatives throughout the region.
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​Clink the links below for more information.

Speciality Trainers with an Interest in Paediatric Education and Simulation (STrIPES)

The STrIPES group (Speciality Trainers Involved in Paediatric Education & Simulation) was created so that Wessex paediatric trainees could work collaboratively to support and develop education programmes and spread innovative ideas for patient care across the region.

Find out more: www.wessexstripes.com, Newsletter

Southampton Children's Hospital

Southampton Children’s Hospital is part of University Hospital Southampton NHS foundation trust – one of the largest teaching trusts in the country - providing general and specialist paediatric services in the south of England.
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Find out more: www.childrenshospital.uhs.nhs.uk

Healthier Together

This project aims to align the various providers of paediatric care across Wessex in order to ensure that children receive high quality care irrespective of where they present and that parents receive consistent healthcare messages. The website includes clinical pathways for pathologies that straddle primary and secondary care, as well as Wessex-wide secondary care guidelines and dedicated material for young people.

Find out more: www.healthiertogetherwessex.nhs.uk

NHS Health Education Wessex - School of Paediatrics

The Wessex school of paediatrics provides hands on postgraduate education programmes designed to create our future leaders in general paediatrics and a wide range of sub-specialties.
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Find out more: www.wessexdeanery.nhs.uk

Ready, Steady, Go

The Ready Steady Go transition programme, developed by the Transition Steering Group and led by Dr Arvind Nagra, provides the necessary tools to successfully transfer children with chronic medical conditions onto adult services.
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Find out more: www.uhs.nhs.uk/ReadySteadyGo

SORT (Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team)

The Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT) is a collaboration between two paediatric intensive care units delivering expert paediatric critical care to hospitals throughout the south of England. Its website hosts a dosage calculator and useful guidelines for children with acute severe illness. 

Find out more - www.sort.nhs.uk

SONeT (Southampton and Oxford Neonatal Transport)

The Southampton Oxford Neonatal Transport service (SONeT) is a collaboration between  two neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Oxford and Southampton. It provides emergency neonatal retrievals, planned transfers and repatriations in Thames Valley and Wessex neonatal network.

Find out more: www.sort.nhs.uk/SONeT

The pRESUS Programme

The pRESUS programme has been designed by paediatric trainees in the Wessex Deanery, led by Fiona Hignett, to provide near-peer education and simulation training to medical and nursing students.
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Find out more: www.presus.weebly.com

Wessex Refugee Resource

The Wessex Refugee Resource has been developed trainees in the Wessex Deanery to support health professionals treating refugees and asylum seekers within our region.

Find out more: www.wessexrefugeeresource.com