The West Midlands General Paediatric Surgery Network (WMGPS) was first established in 2014. After a brief lull it was revived in 2016 with the resumption of network meetings on 29th September of that year. Network meetings are held twice per year, in the spring and autumn and include CPD. More information about meetings can be found on the network meetings page.
Network objectives
- Develop and support common standards of care for GPS across the region
- Drive best practice guidelines for the management of common conditions
- Provide consistent, up to date parent/patient information
- Ensure that all GPS providers, patients and carers have a voice
- Improve communication and collaborative working across the network
- Create opportunities for like-minded clinicians to interact
- Provide regular CPD activity for GPS providers
- Help define training in GPS across the region
- Provide an online resource to facilitate and support all GPS network activity
- Underpin governance and professional revalidation related to GPS
The network recognises that the services of surgery, anaesthesia, paediatrics and children’s nurses are interdependent. We are committed to engaging with all our clinical partners to enhance children’s surgical services across the region.
Network clinical leadership
The following clinicians are joint clinical leads for the network:
Mr Oliver Gee – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Mr Doug Bowley – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Hospital trusts within the WMGPS Network area
- Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
- The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Wye Valley NHS Trust