Healthcare Professionals
Education at CenTre
Our Transport Educator is Alison Robinson. Alison works with all team members to ensure they receive a comprehensive induction at the start of their transport career as well as working with our experienced team members in order to keep them up to date with equipment and new processes.
Alison is supported by our Consultant Team: Dr Andy Currie, Dr Deepa Panjwani, Dr Puneet Nath, Dr Arthi Lakshmanan and Dr Julia Edwards.
Additional to this we have 4 experienced ACP’s, Tim Styche, Sam Bird, Louise Crabtree and Emma Blackburn, who also provide educational support for our service.
Our team support our in house education program as well as offering outreach educational support. Our in house program consists of specific training days covering a wide variety of subjects to ensure our team are kept up to date. Topics previously have included:
Cardiac
Sepsis
Persistent pulmonary hypertension
ECMO
Nitric Oxide
Theraputic hypothermia
CFAM
Hydrops
Hypoglycaemia
Communication
Simulation sessions
Our transport nurses are expected to attend a minimum of 2 education days every year. We also welcome our junior medical colleagues, our drivers from St John Ambulance, our clerical support and our paediatric transport colleagues from COMET to join us on these days.
We have regular weekly huddles and monthly updates in person or via MS Teams. These are short, snappy 30 – 45 minute sessions in the morning before the teams start their jobs for the day where we aim to cover relevant topics, service updates etc.
For further information on transport related teaching sessions in your unit please email Alison at alison.robinson68@nhs.net
Observation days with CenTre
If you would like to join the CenTre team for a day we are able to take observers out with us to experience what we do.
We welcome any student (Nurse or Medical), qualified Nurses and Medics, and any staff working in Neonates or with other Transport services.
If you would like to arrange an observer day with one of our teams in Castle Donington, please contact us on 0300 300 0038 and our call handlers will connect you to the appropriate person.
