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Clinician

Dr Charlotte Durand

Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is based in Liverpool West Derby — the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

Press citations

1

Topic

1

Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Last quoted

Aug 2026

Dr Charlotte Durand: key facts

Kind of voice
Clinician
Role
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Organisation
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Organisation based in
Liverpool West Derby
Quoted on
Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Tracked press citations
1
Most recently quoted
27 Aug 2026

Who Dr Charlotte Durand is

Dr Charlotte Durand is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool. She works in the Paediatric Emergency Department at one of the largest children's hospitals in the United Kingdom. She has 17 published research outputs with 149 citations recorded on ResearchGate, covering topics including Group A Streptococcal disease, magnet ingestion management, and paediatric handover quality. She was a project lead on the TRANSMIT Sheet, a structured handover tool for paediatric inpatients designed and validated at Alder Hey to improve the quality of written information available to out-of-hours staff. She has been quoted in NHS England press coverage advocating for the adoption of rapid diagnostic innovations in paediatric emergency care.

“could have a massive impact on the emergency care of paediatric patients”

References for this biography

  1. 1.NHS hospitals trialling 15-minute blood test for life-threatening conditions in children – NHS England — Confirms full title (Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool) and public-facing press quote.
  2. 2.Charlotte DURAND – ResearchGate profile — Confirms current institution (Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Paediatric Emergency Department), position (Consultant), and publication record (17 publications, 149 citations).
  3. 3.The Alder Hey TRANSMIT Sheet – RCPCH QI Central — Confirms Dr Durand as a named project lead on the TRANSMIT Sheet quality improvement initiative at Alder Hey and University of Liverpool.

Notable achievements

  • Project lead on the TRANSMIT Sheet, a structured and validated handover tool for paediatric inpatients at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, developed in collaboration with the University of Liverpool. Source ↗
  • Quoted by NHS England in coverage of a national trial of a 15-minute blood test for life-threatening conditions in children, as a participating clinician at Alder Hey. Source ↗
  • Co-authored research (published September 2024) on the use and impact of rapid molecular testing for Group A Streptococcus in a paediatric emergency department during the 2022/23 high-incidence winter. Source ↗

Where Dr Charlotte Durand has been quoted

  1. NHS trialling rapid blood test to help diagnose sepsis and meningitis in childrentheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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