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About this website

This website was produced under the leadership of Professor Simon Kenny OBE, National Clinical Director – Children and Young People at NHS England and NHS Improvement and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and Dr Rachel Harwood, Paediatric Surgery Registrar at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. It was funded by a grant via Alder Hey Children’s Charity.

Colleagues from a number of bodies supported the project, including: Aruna Abhyankar, University Hospital of Wales; Harriet Corbett, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Mark Davenport, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chris Driver, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital; Rachel Harwood, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Professor Paul Johnson, Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Oxford and Chair of the British Association of Paediatric Surgery Research Committee; Manoj Shenoy, President of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists; Michael Stanton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust; Martin Tod, Men’s Health Forum; Nick Wilson-Jones, University Hospital of Wales; Dan Wood, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust; Mark Woodward, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

About Professor Simon Kenny OBE

Professor Simon Kenny OBE BSc ChB(Hons) MD FRCS(Paed) FAAP  
Professor Kenny is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, where he has worked since 2003. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the University of Liverpool, and his research interests include the long-term outcomes in paediatric surgery. Professor Kenny is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Children and Young People and, since 2017, he has been the National Clinical Lead for Paediatric Surgery for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. He is a clinical adviser and board member of the National Clinical Improvement Programme (NCIP) and he chairs the Clinical Outcomes Committee of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons.