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The Chelsea Children’s Hospital SIMON ECCLES
Simon Eccles is a Consultant in Craniofacial Surgery at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He graduated as a Doctor from Charing Cross and the Westminster Medical School in 1992 and as a dentist
from the Royal London Hospital in
1985.Following a four year training programme in General Surgery, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) in 1996. At this time he began his training in Plastic Surgery which lasted for a period of 8 years. During this time he was awarded the McGregor Medal at the Royal College of Surgeons in the Specialist Fellowship FRCS (FRCS Plast). He is a past president of the plastic surgery section
of the Royal Society of Medicine, and represents London on the National Commissioning Group for Childrens Specialist Surgery.
craniofacial planning meeting with a wide range of specialists to create an optimum treatment plan for patients. “It includes craniofacial surgeons, neurosurgeons, ENT surgeons, oculoplastic surgeons, plastic surgeons, dental and orthodontic surgeons, sometimes radiologists and and most importantly the patient and their parents,” he says. “So rather than going from hospital to hospital to see different consultants the patient should go home with a treatment plan, having had the opportunity to ask questions to a whole range of professionals,” he continues. “As a clinician it gives you fantastic exposure to other people’s abilities. It also reduces the number of procedures as we will often have whole teams working on different areas at the same time.” Chelsea and Westminster is in the process of a
in London for children that require care in a high dependency setting. There is also a designated children’s accident and emergency department that provides emergency care for 33,000 children each year. “One of my first tasks when I took over my new
role was to secure specialist children’s surgical services here for the whole of North West London,” says Mr Eccles. “We went through a complex bidding process which we won. This process is extremely important as it reduces fragmentation and patients and other clinicians know their referral pathways.” “Often these children have complex facial
problems; they have heart problems, gastrointestinal and neurology problems so you need the expertise of lots of clinicians to help you,” he says. “We have multi-professional teams made up of doctors, nurses and other allied health professionals, so the pathway is no longer sequential, which can cause long delays.” In his own area of expertise he attends a monthly
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proposed acquisition of West Middlesex University Hospital and there are plans to develop a Women and Children’s Institute that will offer teaching, training and research. Research at the maternal level is led by Professor Mark Johnson and investigates the different factors that prevent babies being born prematurely and that encourage maturation. In addition a paediatric da Vinci robot has been
acquired to carry out laparoscopic surgery on tiny babies, theoretically giving better results with less healing issues and thus minimising their time in hospital. It is the only such robot in the UK dedicated to babies and children and the £1m machine was acquired through a major fundraising initiative. “Chelsea and Westminster has a caring focus and people recognise our innovation and understand that we are trying to do something different,” says Mr Eccles. “We have a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to providing high-quality healthcare for children and young people in a safe and child-friendly environment.”
Further information
www.chelwest.nhs.uk
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