Respiratory Paediatrics

The services we offer include:

• regional cystic fibrosis centre
  
• sleep service (home study and inpatient work)
  
• non-invasive respiratory support service (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP))
  
• care of children with tracheostomies
  
• management of empyema (a collection of pus in the pleural cavity) of the lung and other respiratory infections
  
• management of asthma
  
• management of other respiratory illnesses
  
• investigation of respiratory problems
  

Outreach clinics are provided at:

• High Wycombe
• Milton Keynes
• Wexham Park
• Reading
• Northampton
  

We also participate in a quarterly joint cleft palate clinic and a quarterly transitional clinic with the adult cystic fibrosis services based at the Churchill Hospital.

Staff

• Sarah-Jane Bowen
  Consultant
• Ridma Jayarathna
  Consultant
• Cathy McKenny
  Cystic Fibrosis Advanced Nurse Practitioner
  
• Katherine Teago
  Cystic Fibrosis Specialist Nurse Practitioner
  
• Jayne Gallagher
  Paediatric Respiratory Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Tracheostomy and Long-term Ventilation)
• Sarah Nightingale
  Paediatric Respiratory Specialist Nurse Practitioner
• Rachael Cooper
  Paediatric Asthma Specialist Nurse Practitioner
• Janina Kalinowska
  HCA Sleep Service
• Sam Bird
  Cystic Fibrosis Specialist Physiotherapist
• Gillian Reynolds
  Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Dietitian
• Heather Knight
  Adult and Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Dietitian
• Anna Elderton
  Clinical Psychologist
• David Andrews
  Sleep Physiologist
  

Find us and contact us

Paediatric respiratory services are based in the Children's Hospital, on the John Radcliffe Hospital site.

Initial contact with this service should be made via your GP.

Link

Cystic Fibrosis Trust