Northern Ireland Specialist Transport & Retrieval @NISTAR_HSC
Emergency medical retrieval services for critically ill infants, children and adults nistar.hscni.net Belfast, Northern Ireland Joined April 2019-
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The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) @niaschair Michele Larmour visited the Northern Ireland Specialist Transport and Retrieval (NISTAR) service on Thursday 18th April. Find out more: nias.hscni.net/nias-chair-mic…
Getting ready for SIMSTAR tomorrow
Celebrating 20 years of our Adult NISTAR team 🌟 Thank you to our incredible staff for their hard work and dedication in providing this vital service. And check out that cake! 🚑🎂
Congratulations to Paul and Derval!
Yesterday we celebrated the NI's Children’s Ambulance 1st Birthday. Over 200 trips have been made by the ambulance in 2023, providing families and children with a less stressful journey to life-saving surgery. childrensheartbeattrust.org/2024/02/02/nis…
At the All Island Paediatric Cardiac Network Conference today Emma Thompson (Lead Nurse) and Cara Barbour (Paediatric Co-ordinator) made two poster presentations for NISTAR on the Nurse Led Team and a new referral process for Cardiac Network transfers.
We have a fantastic opportunity to join the NISTAR Neonatal Team, three part-time Transport Nurse positions have just been advertised. jobs.hscni.net/Job/32704/nist…
Congratulations to Annette Lavery, the NISTAR Team Leader, who recently graduated with an HNC in Healthcare Practice with a Distinction. Brilliant work, well done!
This week the NISTAR adult team assisted with a repatriation from Tralee and met the @IrishAirCorps at Belfast City Airport for the transfer to the Royal Victoria Hospital.
245 transfers in September and October 2023 by all four NISTAR Teams across the region and to and from Dublin
🥳 Here’s to new beginnings!!! 🥳 A MASSIVE congratulations to my wonderful wife Moira, on the commencement of her dream 🤩 job @NISTAR_HSC! 🚑 I have no doubt she will be a great asset to a truly unbelievable & very special service!🏥#specialisttransport #retrieval #ambulance…
NISTAR on its travels in India today with Dr Catherine Patterson one of our Adult Team working in Asha baby clinics at Kalkaj
The NISTAR Simulation based Safe Transfer and Retrieval training ran in Bretten Hall on Saturday 21st October. The training day covered communications and logistics, patient packaging and equipment and transfer simulations for adult and paediatric patients.
Another busy couple of months over the Summer with 225 transfers in July and August 2023 by the NISTAR neonatal, paediatric, nurse led and adult teams.
Nistar SPOC telephone number 028 9504 0167 has been fully restored. Please use this number if you need to make a referral request. 😀
NISTAR SPOC telephone number 028 9504 0167, is temporarily not working, if you need to make a referral can you ring 07784 360317, until the issue is resolved. I will keep you updated throughout the day.
Yesterday was our quarterly NISTAR Clinical Governance Day with team presentations on various subjects including Pulmonary Hypoplasia and the human factors of a patient handover. We also had a presentation from our Critical Care and Retrieval colleagues in Wales @CritCareCymru
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Great day out with this lady on Saturday at the Scouting Air Activities day. Being out with her always brings a smile to my face… love you 😘. (Also in picture: Daughter)
113 transfers in April 2023 by all four NISTAR Teams across the region and to and from Dublin
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Another opportunity to join a NISTAR study day. For those interested in Paediatric and Adult Critical Care Transfer.
Thank you @NISTAR_HSC for this. I am proud to have worked with such an empowering, person centred and innovative team - with a few laughs along the way! Thank you for all you do
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Thank you to Katie for her brilliant narration. Look out Hollywood..... @DrLyndseyT
“The NISTAR nurse led team work from 8am-8pm seven days per week and complete both paediatric and neonatal transfers. This animation produced by Dr Lynsey Thompson and the NISTAR nurses aims to help children prepare for their journey in the NISTAR ambulance”
@paramedicciaran @NISTAR_HSC @DrLyndseyT Love this Ciaran and Lyndsey!! I'm sure the kids who need to use the servuce will too. Well done👏
This is excellent
“The NISTAR nurse led team work from 8am-8pm seven days per week and complete both paediatric and neonatal transfers. This animation produced by Dr Lynsey Thompson and the NISTAR nurses aims to help children prepare for their journey in the NISTAR ambulance”
Check out this great video from @NISTAR_HSC explaining what happens when children are transferred from one hospital to another via ambulance. CHT Team :) youtu.be/1mHtrWs3ZiI
@NISTAR_HSC Wow this is amazing! Well done team! :)
Amazing work done by NISTAR!
Between March to Sept, the @NISTAR_HSC have completed 100 #Covid19 transfers. Thanks to the doctors, nurses, ambulance care attendants, critical care scientists & call management team who have ensured that these transfers have been completed promptly and safely.
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