Dr Peter Reynolds
What do you do?
I’m a Consultant Neonatologist at St. Peter’s Hospital and joint KSS Neonatal Network Clinical Lead. Locally I lead on Neonatal Research at SPH and have an Honorary Senior Lecturer post at Royal Holloway University of London where I lecture to BSc students on the neurosciences courses. I have an academic side, having previously gained an MSc in Clinical Paediatrics and a PhD in Immunology at Imperial College, whilst doing the majority of my Neonatal Training at the Hammersmith Hospital. My publications are listed here: https://publicationslist.org/peter.reynolds
I have always been interested in improving the quality of care of babies, from developing a non-invasive ventilation and respiratory management philosophy into our neonatal care, to improving our management of hypoglycaemia, nutrition and other factors that dictate outcomes. St. Peter’s has led the way over the years in the early adoption of high flow (since 2007), cooling for HIE (since 2005) and reducing term admissions into the neonatal unit through the use of dextrose gel on the postnatal wards (since 2016). I also strongly believe in taking local improvements and developing them across the region, and I led the Time=Brain project across KSS which created, in 2016, the first servo-cooling network in the UK, ensuring that wherever babies were born, they had rapid access to cooling treatment if required. I have done stints on the neonatal CRG, national pricing group, and BAPM working groups for the categories of care, staffing of neonatal units and the hypoglycaemia framework for practice. In 2018 I won a parent nominated national award for “Best Neonatal Specialist”.
What would you like to achieve?
I value the network lead role because we can use the close working relationships we have built across KSS to not only ensure safety and promote best practices, but to drive quality improvements and sharing of new clinical knowledge and practices. Our increasingly consistent network practices on ATAIN, transfers, nutrition, probiotics, cooling, PMRT reviews and newer areas such as ROP management, airway management are credit to the network as a whole, and our teamwork is exemplified by the excellent attendances at our capacity, governance and clinical forum meetings. We have ambitions to improve training and education further with our new website, and suggestions from our network colleagues are always welcome.
Email address: medwayft.kssneonatalodn@nhs.net