Clinical Outreach Team

Our Paediatric Critical Care Outreach team are experienced children's nurses with a critical care background. This means they have all worked in areas such as intensive care, high dependency or the emergency department.

Their role is to provide support in all areas to care for children who are very unwell, or whose condition has deteriorated and may require extra care. They will advise and educate where required and will support staff with appropriate escalation of patient care. The team works in partnership with the multi-professional team to ensure all acutely ill children in the hospital have timely and appropriate care.

There are a number of different reasons why the team may become involved in your child's care:

• If your child's observations, such as heart rate, breathing rate and blood pressure, are outside of normal limits.
• If your child has been discharged from the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) or the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to a ward or bed. They will be followed-up for 48 hours, even though they may not be acutely unwell.
• If your child is being cared for in a high dependency bed.
• If your child is receiving certain types of oxygen therapy.

The team will help to ease your transition to the ward and provide you and your child support. You may also see them on the wards and children's emergency department assisting in emergency situations.