The Chelsea Children’s Hospital
Simon Eccles, Associate Medical Director at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital talks to Sarah Cartledge about his vision for integrated paediatric care
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ocated in the heart of London Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is one of London’s largest providers of children’s services, caring for more than 75,000 children
a year. It has been designated as the lead centre for specialist paediatric and neonatal surgery in North West London, carrying out complex surgery on babies and children. In March 2013 the different paediatric services
including burns and craniofacial surgery, dentistry, ENT, general surgery, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and urology were brought together as The Chelsea Children’s Hospital. “We are the biggest paediatric unit in North West London and our desire is to grow into the third biggest children’s hospital in London,” says Simon Eccles, the Associate Medical Director. Mr Eccles is a craniofacial consultant surgeon
who was formerly Clinical Lead for Paediatric Services. He is a firm believer in reducing fragmentation and providing integrated care for children and young people, many of whom are
40 Global Opportunity Healthcare 2015 | Issue 01
Above: TRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall opened the new Chelsea Children’s Hospital in March 2014
referred from different parts of the UK. The new Children’s Hospital represents a move to integrate care and develop paediatric services for the future. A major £40m redevelopment has seen four
new state-of-the-art children’s operating theatres, improved children’s wards, high dependency unit and burns unit. A new children’s emergency unit is under construction, and the next phase will see a new adolescent ward and an acute assessment ward. The first phase has been completed and by the end of the project all paediatric services will be located on the hospital’s first floor. Creative studio
Thomas.Matthews has designed the look and feel of the new wards with an overarching Outer Space theme, where illustrated characters interact with the visitors and give them comfort, reassurance and advice. The Children’s Hospital has a large neonatal unit
that covers complex neonatology. It also has a new children’s burns unit with a large outpatients department that has what Mr Eccles describes as ‘a wonderful environment.” It is the only burns unit
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