King Edward VII is a private hospital near Marylebone, and many of the fellows do shifts on the ICU there to fund their time in research.
The ICU is a four bedded unit located within the main hospital. It has the capacity to manage four ventialted patients, perform haemofiltration and standard ITU care.
Supervision is provided by 5 UCL ICU consultants, mainly Dr John Goldstone and Prof Geoff Bellingan, with a smaller number of on-calls covered by Dr Sara Polhill (mainly Tuesdays), Dr Niall MacCallum, and Dr Dan Martin. The consultants provide twice daily consultant rounds. They often cross cover with The London Clinic but are accessible by telephone for immediate support.
The fellows do seven 24hr shifts a month and shifts start at 09:00hrs until 09:00hrs the next day. You are allowed to take 11 of these shifts off as Annual Leave in a year. Study Leave can also be accommodated for things like mandatory training for the hospital and ALS. The rota consists of three regular ITU fellows and banks staff, as such, the rotas are flexible to accomodate your research schedule and conferences. Rotas are planned three months in advance with the regular staff selecting their shifts first.
The hospital is relatively quiet with generally 1-2 patients per shift varying from Level 1-3 care. This can be beneficial as gives time to perform research while on duty but does mean you are not managing acutely unwell patients as frequently or performing procedures. You are provided with a room, two meals a day and desk, bed and TV to use when not on the ITU.