Dr Tara Byott

Dr Tara Byott is a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist with more than three years of experience practising within a tertiary paediatric referral centre. She provides specialist anaesthetic care for infants, children, and young people undergoing a wide spectrum of surgical and diagnostic procedures. Her clinical practice encompasses the perioperative management of complex paediatric patients, including those with congenital abnormalities, significant co-morbidities, and high-risk conditions that require coordinated multidisciplinary input. She is experienced in delivering anaesthesia for both elective and emergency procedures and routinely manages patients with complex clinical needs in a tertiary hospital setting. Dr Byott has particular expertise in the anaesthetic management of children undergoing major surgery, including neonatal surgical procedures and major burns surgery, as well as children requiring diagnostic imaging and other specialist interventions. Her role involves comprehensive preoperative assessment, intraoperative anaesthetic management, and postoperative care, including acute pain management and support for critically ill patients where required. Working closely with surgeons, intensivists, nursing teams, and allied health professionals, she contributes to the delivery of safe, high-quality, and family-centred care. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, she is actively involved in clinical governance, trainee supervision, education, and service development initiatives designed to improve patient safety, quality of care, and clinical outcomes within paediatric anaesthesia.

Dr Byott has a particular clinical interest in anaesthesia for major scoliosis correction surgery, an area that requires meticulous perioperative planning, advanced monitoring, and close multidisciplinary collaboration. She is experienced in the management of children undergoing complex spinal deformity surgery, with a focus on optimising perioperative safety, haemodynamic stability, pain management, and postoperative recovery. She also has a specialist interest in paediatric otolaryngology (ENT) anaesthesia and regularly provides anaesthetic care for children undergoing a range of airway and ENT procedures. In addition, she provides anaesthesia for regular lower limb orthopaedic operating lists and for children receiving proton beam radiotherapy. These areas of practice reflect her ongoing commitment to delivering specialist anaesthetic care across a diverse range of complex paediatric surgical and procedural services.

Dr Byott has demonstrated an ongoing interest in clinical research, quality improvement, and medical education. Her publications and presentations have focused on paediatric vascular access, service evaluation, and anaesthetic training, including work presented at the World Congress on Vascular Access (WoCoVA) and research relating to simulation-based education in paediatric anaesthesia. She has also contributed to professional education through podcast and written publications and has previously been involved in clinical research examining the progression of diabetic neuropathy using corneal confocal microscopy.

Dr Byott is committed to medical education and has completed a Master's-level module in Medical Education delivered in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians and Edge Hill University. She is a fully qualified Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) Instructor and regularly contributes to regional and national anaesthetic education programmes, including the North West Paediatric Vascular Access Course and the National Returning to Work in Anaesthesia Course. In addition, she serves as an Educational Supervisor for anaesthetic residents at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, supporting trainee development, educational progression, and professional growth.

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Dr Byott has undertaken formal leadership and management training through completion of a Master's-level module in Medical Leadership and Management at Edge Hill University. The programme, equivalent to 20 academic credits, was mapped to the standards of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and provided advanced training in healthcare leadership, organisational management, quality improvement, and service development. Throughout her career, she has developed leadership experience through a combination of formal and informal roles. She previously served on the Association of Anaesthetists Residents’ Committee and has more recently held the position of Audit and Quality Improvement Lead within her department. In this role, she has overseen projects focused on patient safety, service evaluation, clinical audit, and continuous quality improvement, contributing to the ongoing enhancement of paediatric anaesthetic services.

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