South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS) team

This section provides information about our South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS) team.

Our team is based in the children's intensive care unit (PICU) at Evelina London.

Consultants

All consultants specialise in children's intensive care and have additional responsibilities.

• Shelley Riphagen – service lead and liaison for hospitals in Kent
• Marilyn McDougall – deputy service lead, STRS education lead and liaison for hospitals in south west London
• Alison Pienaar – clinical governance lead and liaison for hospitals in south east London
• Jon Lillie – liaison for hospitals on the south coast
• Ben Griffiths – liaison for hospitals in Surrey
• Miriam Fine-Goulden – liaison for Pembury, Guildford, King's College Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital
• Andrew Nyman
• Paul James
• Maja Pavcnik
• Ariane Annicq

Lead nurse

• Fiona Bickell

Retrieval coordinator

• Karen Starkie

Retrieval nurse practitioners

We have the largest retrieval nurse practitioner (RNP) training program in the UK. Our RNPs have the same skills as our medical team, leading approximately half of our transfers.

• Fiona Bickell – RNP team lead in addition to other lead nurse duties
• Jenny Budd
• Jo Davies
• Jo Dyer
• Emma Gadsby
• Sarah Hardwick
• Sasha Herring
• Dawn Knight
• Kirsteen McCulloch
• Louise Preston
• Alex Williams

Other staff

• Annette Toner – department secretary
• Sonya Leeds – department secretary

Partners

• St John Ambulance
• Children's Air Ambulance