Cats - Children'S Acute Transport Service

We wish Richard & Liz Horner all the best for their charity golf day on Wednesday. Your support to CATS over the years has been incredible and we cannot thank you enough

Good luck to Luke Turner who is doing a 10k tough mudder run this Saturday! Lexie, Luke’s sister was transferred by CATS in 2018.. We cannot thank you enough for undertaking this challenge and fundraising for us. We wish you the best of luck! 😊😊😊👍👍👍

Massive shout out to Simon Macqueen who is running the marathon today for our CATS charity- good luck and thank you!Massive shout out to Simon Macqueen who is running the marathon today for our CATS charity- good luck and thank you!

Every 2 years we do in a charity race, and I use that term loosely. Mostly it is us, the CATS ( Children’s Acute Transport Service)Team walking or pretending to run then flinging ourselves over under and around obstacles!! We’re doing this laughing and screaming, with the occasional tear in memory of our dear friend and colleague Rachel.
All the money we raise in Rach’s memory goes towards us being able to provide comfort packs for parents and carers of the critically ill ch...ildren we transfer. When their children are critically ill or injured parents may not have had time to grab even the basics from home before they are taken to paediatric intensive care units. Our bag contains: toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, water, biscuits, mints, an information booklet, and our mascot Cassie the Cat.
If you could donate to our charity we would be extremely grateful and will reward you with some ridiculous training pics!!
Many thanks is in advance. 😊😊😊
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Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! Wishing all our CATS friends and families a very happy St David’s Day! 😊😊😊

As we’re all aware, in the winter pressure on the NHS increases. The biggest impact on our service is the number of beds available in the paediatric intensive care units (ICU). One way to help free up beds is to move patients from the ICUs back to the hospitals from whence they came. Being able to do this can make the difference between keeping a patient within our region and having to move them to hospitals in the South, Midlands or North of the country. For a period of 2-3 months CATS has expanded to have three teams available to retrieve patients during the day.

Wishing all our CATS families and friends a happy and healthy new year! Sending it now as we’re busy! Enjoy everyone! 😊😊😊🥂🥂🥂xxx

And a bit belatedly the Christmas Day night teams! 🎄🎄🎄

Merry Christmas from the day teams who managed to eat together in between transfers! 😊😊😊🎄🎄🎄

Wishing all our CATS friends and families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and healthy New Year! 🎄🎄🎄

Some lovely Christmas trees and decorations seen on our travels this week- Aida our CATS Dr pictured at St Marys hospital, and Syeeta the talented play specialist from the Homerton who made a snowman out of cups! 🎄🎄🎄⛄️⛄️⛄️ not forgetting the amazing elf display at GOSH PICU!!

The team enjoying the fabulous Christmas tree at the Royal London Hospital it’s massive! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

What an amazing guy- Lary pictured on the right cycled from Lands End to Yorkshire to raise money for the parent packs we give to each family we transfer. Thank you so much. These parent packs make such a difference to our families who often have not had time to collect basic provisions from home. They contain: water, biscuits, toothpaste shower gel and some mints. Thank you so much we wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 😊😊😊

Winter is here, it has been so busy over the last week everywhere and we just wanted to thank all staff in district hospitals and other transport teams and PICUS for fab teamwork! Not long till spring...👍👍👍

Aoife and Claire, two very excited members of the CATS team, getting ready to fly out of Regents Park to retrieve a patient in East Anglia. Thanks to the SAR crew based at Lydd in Kent for their invaluable help.

Really enjoyed talking today at the CHD conference- thanks all for listening! 😊😊😊

Just about to teach on the congenital heart disease course - 90 nurses here this week learning all there is to know about cardiac nursing! Lots of experts in the room- great way to share knowledge and good practice in the region