The South West Peninsula Children's Surgery Unit

30/03/2026

Today we said goodbye to our Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Sarah Rawlinson, who is retiring after 17 years working in Plymouth and 31 years in the NHS. Thank you for all your hard work Sarah & enjoy your well deserved retirement.

09/03/2026

New helpful information from the royal college of anaesthetists on how to prepare children for surgery. Check it out on the website

Supporting your child through anaesthesia and surgery

15/02/2026

One our surgeons who operates on children I our unit. Proud that we have so many women surgeons working in Plymouth.

07/02/2026

Congratulations Mrs Murals, your award is so well deserved & we love the work that you have done for us.

09/01/2026

Many congratulations to our colleague Alice - who graduated as an Operating Department Practitioner today. Alice’s training was supported by University Hospitals Plymouth, and she did all her clinical training in Plymouth too. We are delighted that she has joined SWPCSU as a paediatric ODP - looking after critically ill children and those having surgery in Plymouth. Well done Alice and welcome to the team!

17/12/2025

Thank you Sugarplum Soft play for donating these amazing gifts for our patients this December 💖 🤩

Myself and a good friend from Party Perfect UK have been collecting gifts for around a month now, today we were able to donate just over 200 gifts to The South West Peninsula Children's Surgery Unit! 🤩🥳

We hope to bring a smile to every single child and their family having a tough time this Christmas ❤️

Thankyou so much to everyone who donated and made this possible 🙏 we couldn’t have done it without you x

11/12/2025

Merry Christmas from everyone at SWPCSU! And congratulations to our staff members Liz & Debbie - joint winners of this year’s Christmas Bake Off.

31/10/2025

Thank you so much to all the individuals and businesses who have donated Halloween decorations and goodies for our patients. They have really made a spooktacular difference to their visits to hospital. 🎃👻🎃👻

13/09/2025

Well done to our brave and intrepid staff members who abseiled down the hospital building today to raise money for child friendly decor and play equipment in our unit. Thank you all for a great team effort - over £1700 raised so far!!

https://plymouthhospitals.enthuse.com/pf/childrens-theatres?fbclid=IwdGRleAMyOSlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHtzvc4_mC3_qBtSDTgO8mAq8sJk9HnGwhDp6aq2YTAybW6Wpzg5dMQURQC4F_aem_hQWV9BAvpLpZ-v-BIt54QA

15/07/2025

Today we have received a kind donation from Stan Hacking Concert Band to decorate our sensory room in children’s theatres. Cheque for £1000 presented by Barry Parsons musical director. Stan Hacking Concert band Thank you this will go a long way to making the experience for our children and families good.

23/06/2025

This week we would like to join with schools across the UK and the charity Just Like Us to celebrate School Diversity Week. Inclusion is really important to us at SWPCSU and we want all children and young people to feel safe, valued and respected when they come to theatres.

23/05/2025

We are really proud to have been accredited as an elective surgical hub by the National “Getting It Right First Time” team - we are only the second dedicated children’s surgical service in England to have achieved this recognition.
We had to demonstrate that we meet a range of standards for the care we provide, and accreditation means that we will be able to do more to reduce the length of time children in the southwest have to wait to have some of the more common surgical procedures.