Meet the Team
Critical Care Outreach
The Outreach Team is currently a nurse led service and provides cover six days a week. Within the team there is a Nurse Clinician/Consultant who is the permanent team lead.
The Outreach Service is fully supported by all Critical Care consultants/Junior doctors and they are called upon for advice and assessment of patients needing Critical Care.
The Outreach Team is available for advice, support and education. We are a ‘hands on’ Clinical Team. We will support all aspects of caring for the acutely ill patient, to include 
obtaining bloods, blood gasses, oxygen management, fluid management, interpretation of blood results / gasses, tracheotomy care, care of central lines and MEWS scoring.
The Outreach Team is keen to provide this service on an informal or a formal basis.
Contact
Ms Julie Reid – Nurse Clinician / Consultant
Bleep 7044 ext. 8196 (Secretary) Ext. 2717
Nutritional Support
Ms Tazeen Khatib, Chief Dietitian
I assess patients on ITU and HDU and advise on the most appropriate nutritional interventions. Patients are referred to me via medical and nursing staff. The majority of 
patients that I assess require nutrition support. This may involve artificial feeding or enhancing their existing oral intake with prescribed nutritional supplements.
In addition to my role in Critical Care, I am a member of the hospital nutrition team. This is a multi-professional group with four members. Our work predominantly involves the management of patients being fed intravenously. In addition to this, the team is responsible for maintaining protocols for care of patients receiving various nutritional interventions.
I will assess patients individually and monitor their progress, amending their intervention as appropriate. Nutritional status is clearly linked to improved clinical outcomes and thus providing appropriate nutritional intervention with optimising patient care.
Education and Training Practice Educators
The Education and Training practice Educators for the critical Care Unit are:
Ms Pat Crutchley and Ms Denise Albiston
As Nurse Educators we continuously strive to maintain and update our personal knowledge and skills. Our qualifications include; BA honours, advanced diploma in healthcare, Post-graduate teaching and Learning Certificate in Education, Intensive Care course qualification and we are currently working towards MA in clinical education.
The role is to: 
- Manage the education and training needs of one hundred members of qualified and unqualified staff.
- To lead practice developments thereby enhancing the contribution and quality of care enabling staff to reflect upon the significance and inter-relationships.
- To liase with all the multidisciplinary team with regard to holistic care for the patients
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside CH49 5PE
Switchboard: (0151) 678 5111