Prince Charles Hospital is based in Merthyr Tydfil close to the beautiful Brecon Beacons National Park. Our district general hospital sees a wide variety of presentations including trauma from the heads of the valleys road and the local mountain biking attraction, Bike Park Wales. We have a 4 bedded resus area. Our new paediatric area is under significant transformation. We are in the process of redesigning our paediatric area so this will have its own paediatric resus bed embedded within the paediatric ED footprint. We are in the process of recruiting for a play specialist. We have an ENP dedicated area staffed 24/7 within the Emergency Department Footprint and soon to start a RATS work up for our ambulatory patients. We have our own physiotherapist team seeing Emergency Department and their own patients within our Emergency Department footprint. Our Clinical pharmacist Charlotte Curliss has been working in the ED with us for over 2 years and is currently looking for new initiatives for drug storage at PCH. Kyle Newton our Alcohol liaison specialist is recruiting and soon to offer help and support to our ED population 7 days a week. All our supporting teams are actively involved in teaching on the bespoke SHO teaching timetable. We have 2 Research projects running at PCH by our higher Trainees (early STEMI treatment prior to PCI and Chest pain). We have been able to introduce the My Emergency department App as part of a digital transformation scheme lead by an Emergency medicine Register. We are seeing approx. 60,000 patients a year of which 13,000 are children.
Consultant staff:
- Dr Nil Hussain (Clinical Director)
- Dr Eslyd Watson (PEM Lead)
- Dr Lucy Cunnane (ACCS lead)
- Dr Mateusz Szmidt (Trauma, Critical appraisal and US Lead)
- DR Tim Manfield (PHEM and Governance lead)
- Dr Victoria Goodwin (PEM)
- Dr Ali Hazif Associate Specialist (US lead)
- Dr Clive Tovey
- Miss Ella Harrison-Hansley (Speciality Tutor and Well-Being Lead)
Senior Staff
- 4 x SAS
- 2 x CT3
- 6 x HST
Junior Staff
- 1 x ACCS
- 4 x GP
- 4 X FP2
- 1 x FP1
- 4 x JCF with speciality interest in PEM, ITU, Medical education, GUM, Global Health; looking at extending these to PHEM, Well-Being, Environmental issues, Research, Anaesthetics and SIM
- 2 x JCF
Physiotherapists
- Emma Fox
- Nathan Davies
- Hayley O’Brien
Our consultants cover the shop floor from 8 am to 20:00 Monday to Friday. We are looking to increase this soon. On Saturday and Sunday consultant shop floor cover is 8 am to 22:00. We are actively looking for a further PEM consultant to join us. Our Rotas are designed with well-being as a number 1 priority. After a set of Nights are trainees are given 2 full night’s sleep before returning to work. We are mindful of the juniors working lots of weekends and when they are timetable to work a Friday evening shift we finish this early so they can get home at a reasonable time to enjoy their weekend off. All rotas have SPA included. We host our CT3 on a separate CT3 and they are budded up with a HST. We have junior clinical fellows with a specialist interest in Ultra Sound, global health and GUM. We are soon to advertise Junior clinical fellows with speciality interest SIM, wellbeing, Environmental Issues, Digital transformation, Research, Anaesthetics and PEM.
Rota Coordinator: Gareth Whitlock (Gareth.Whitlock@wales.nhs.uk)