Doctors Felicity Fitzgerald, Tom Simpson, Luke Starling, Tessa Greenslade and Jane Hassell and Resuscitation Officers Sonia Khemlyani and Aileen Marks are running a series of sessions to teach parents, potential parents, uncles, aunts, etc paediatric basic life support and managing choking in children. These sessions are very kindly being hosted in the Training Rooms of the Resuscitation Department of Guy's Hospital, London. Each session will last 60 minutes and will be limited to a maximum of four students per trainer. Parents are able to use this page to make a donation for attending the course to The Little Jimmy Brighter Future Fund. Suggested donation of £25 per person. The Little Jimmy Brighter Future Fund was set up specifically to buy equipment for Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of baby James Shaw.

Dates are Sunday 19th February (1000-1600) and Sunday 12th March (1000-1600).

Please book a slot on the Doodle poll below before donating to ensure availability (unless you feel like donating anyway!).

http://doodle.com/poll/3u8ivg3pkcwqknt5

Please come 5-10 minutes before your time slot to Training Suite (floor 2, lift bank F), Borough Wing, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT. We’ll put up some signs too. Any problems call Felicity on 07879642526

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/location-maps/guys-map.pdf

For any additional information, please contact  felicity.fitzgerald@ucl.ac.uk

All of our facilitators are extremely well qualified and are certificated life support providers.

Dr Felicity Fitzgerald is a paediatric registrar currently working at North Middlesex Hospital and trains other doctors on how to resuscitate children as an instructor in APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support) and NLS (Neonatal Life Support), as well as having considerable experience training non-medical parents.

Dr Tom Simpson is a Respiratory Registrar currently working as a Research Fellow in Medical Education at St Thomas' Hospital. He has been trained in Advanced Life Support for neonates, children and adults.


Dr Luke Starling is a Locum Consultant in Paediatric Cardiology &
Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Dr Tessa Greenslade worked as an Anaesthetic Registrar before becoming a full-time mummy.

Dr Jane Hassell is a Specialist Registrar in Neonatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College Hospital London

Nurses Sonia Khemlyani and Aileen Marks are Specialist Resuscitation Officers at Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals where they teach doctors and nurses on resuscitation courses and help run the resuscitation teams.

Jimmy's Story

James William Shaw was born on 21st September 2016, followed three minutes later by his sister Isabel. Both twins were thriving at home, 18-month old Alexa was just beginning to understand that she was an older sister and we as parents were excitedly looking to the future with as a family of five. Then at just 5.5 weeks old Jimmy became suddenly, unexpectedly and devastatingly unwell with presumed sepsis and a complicating blood clot to the bowel. Despite the determined efforts of our local hospital, the Children's Acute Transfer Service (CATS) and ultimately Great Ormond Street Hospital Intensive Care Unit, Jimmy could not be saved. He died in our arms, covered in the kisses of mummy and daddy who told him how loved he was. It is beyond words how traumatised we were left by those two days of seeing Jimmy so terribly unwell and how bereft his death left us, our hearts were truly broken. Then, three weeks after Jimmy died, and just two days after we had buried him, his twin sister Izzy too became unwell with an unrelated condition, we were just seemingly that unlucky. Within 24 hours Izzy was undergoing emergency, life-or-death surgery at Great Ormond Street. We genuinely believed we were going to lose a second child that day. Thankfully Izzy's surgery was successful and she recovered. 

Through The Little Jimmy Brighter Future Fund we hope nurture something positive out of our tragic loss, to help save the lives of other children, to repay so of our perceived incalculable debt to GOSH and to keep his name and memory alive. With £160,000 raised in total so far, we have already paid for five new ventilators for GOSH in Jimmy’s name (we needed £103,800 in all for these) and are excited waiting to hear what life-support equipment we will buy them next. The ventilators will be used by the Children’s Acute Transfer Service (CATS) team bringing sick newborns, babies and children to GOSH, while the other will be used within GOSH. For the first time, these will enable very sick children to be transferred whilst receiving the most intensive ventilation ('oscillation') available. Dr Ramnarayan, lead GOSH consultant for CATS (who also happened to have been the doctor who stabilised Jimmy sufficiently to transfer him to GOSH) believes that this may make all the difference for 25-30 of the sickest children every year. Help us buy GOSH buy even more life-saving equipment!

Thank you for contributing to this.

Love Emily, Pete, Lexy and Izzy xxx