Here's Julie Kaye, our new Acute Respiratory and NIV Specialist Nurse. Her role is to ensure acute respiratory patients are provided with the best care, appropriate to their needs, delivered within a timely manner.

She is also responsible for helping the safe transfer of patients from our emergency departments and other ward areas to the Respiratory Support Unit (RSU). This is a specialised area that can offer a higher level of monitoring and respiratory interventions than what is typically available in standard ward areas.

To refer a patient to the RSU, there is an admission criteria (on the Respiratory pages of the intranet), which must also have Respiratory Consultant involvement. If accepted, please refer to the Respiratory Co-ordinator for bed allocation. The contact details for our respiratory team are below.

• Respiratory Consultant CRH ext. 2053 (Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00)
• Respiratory Consultant out of hours - via switchboard
• Respiratory Co-ordinator CRH ext. 2083 (24/7)
• Julie Kaye, Acute Respiratory and NIV Specialist Nurse 07345 430 281 (Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 16:00)