Transplant Co-ordinators

Olive McGown is the Transplant Coordinator for the Northern & Yorkshire Region and is based in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Olive is a member of the West Yorkshire Critical Care Network Steering Group.

Her contact telephone number in the office is 0113 206 4930.

Other Transplant Coordinators on the YRTC team are: Julie Jeffreys, Laura Hudson, Sean Willis, Jane Fisher

The Network also has it's own 'Donor Liaison Clinician', Dr Alison Pittard.  This is a unique post in the UK and is funded by UK Transplant.  Alison has several project groups looking at the areas of organ donation and visits all hospitals within the Network on a regular basis for education and training purposes.  You may access the Organ Donor Manager Website via a link on the WYCCN home page.

For further information on the work of Dr Pittard please contact the Network Office on 01924 212716.

Transplant Link Nurses

Each Trust within the Network has a 'Transplant Link Nurse' within their Intensive Care Units. These are:

DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS:-

Airedale - Jane McSharry
Bradford - Fiona Norris
Calderdale - Sheena Fennerly
Dewsbury - Lindsey Shields
Huddersfield - Vicky Turner
Pinderfields & Pontefract - Kath Cave

LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS:-

Leeds General Infirmary, General ITU - Mandy Perfect & Helen Griffiths
Leeds General Infirmary, Paediatric ITU - Nicole Goodall & Chloe Fisher
St James's University Hospital, General ITU - Jane Bartley & Alyson Richardson

NB:-
Contact details for the above units can be found here.