The core of our work is to provide a range of high quality advanced clinical and scientific support to many different areas of the hospital. This is centered around clinical physiological measurement such as critical care sciences, respiratory and sleep sciences, intraoperative monitoring, and pre-operative inpatient and outpatient diagnostic testing, including:
- Spinal cord monitoring – Using specialised equipment, we monitor the signals passing through the spinal cord during surgery. This allows us to detect any issues during surgery so surgeons can take corrective action.
- Intra-cranial pressure monitoring – Using specialised equipment, we monitor the pressure inside the skull.
- Sleep diagnostics – We provide overnight sleep diagnostic service to patients at home and in hospital, to help diagnose sleep disordered breathing. (Patient Information Leaflet)
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing – We perform cardiopulmonary exercise testing to ascertain fitness for surgery.
- Scientific safety – We support urodynamics testing and phototherapy in providing their services to their patient, by providing scientific safety advice and assurance. We also provide Laser safety advice to the trust.
Our HCPC registered clinical scientists are trained in immediate life support (ILS) and also support the training of clinical science trainees specialising in clinical measurement.
The clinical scientists are supported by clinical technologists & assistant clinical technologists, who support the technical and development work of clinical scientists, and healthcare science assistants, who prepare clinical equipment for use and perform administrative duties.
Meet the team
- Sarah Whitbourn PhD
Clinical scientist (HCPC registered) & Head of clinical measurement
Laser protection adviser - Alistair Levett-Renton MSc
Clinical scientist (HCPC registered) - Andrew Simpson MSc
Clinical scientist (HCPC registered) - Tony Alton
Clinical technologist - Muhammad Kausar
- Assistant clinical technologist
- Darren Ruddy
Healthcare science assistant