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The service aims to provide high quality care to meet the needs of the children, young people and their families across the area.
The main wards are based at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital but we also have services at City Hospital, including the Children’s Emergency Care Unit (CECU) and outpatient clinics in the Birmingham Treatment Centre, Sandwell Health Campus (formerly Sandwell Hospital) and community locations. We provide tailored services for a wide range of specialties lead by a team of specialists.
To keep up to date with all relevant advice and treatments for a wide range of conditions please see our patient information page which provides links to multiple information leaflets.
Services
We treat children aged from 0-16 years. We also care for some young people aged over 16 years who have needs better met in a paediatric environment.
We have inpatient and outpatient facilities and community teams to safely support our children and families.
These services range from assessments, inpatient stays, adolescent services and high dependency (ITU) care. There are dedicated facilities to allow parents to stay with their child during their hospital admission.
Children’s Outpatients
We provide a cross-site outpatient service and offer a range of specialist clinics for children. We also operate clinics from around the Sandwell and West Birmingham area.
These include:
- General clinics
- Allergies – click here to find out more about this service.
- Cardiology (heart problems)
- Developmental
- Diabetes
- Endocrine (glandular problems)
- Epilepsy (convulsions and fits)
- Haematology (blood disorders)
- Rheumatology (inflammation of the bones)
- Respiratory and Asthma (breathing difficulties)
- Sleep Disorders
- Gastroenterology (stomach problems)
- Infectious Diseases
- Genetics
- General orthopedic surgery (bones and joints)
- General plastic surgery
- General surgery
- Renal (kidneys)
- General urology (reproductive organs and waste urine issues)
There is also a radiology department at both Sandwell and City Hospitals that offer X-ray, CT and MRI scanning.
Specialist support for children’s services comes from pharmacy, laboratory services and many other medical areas. Community services are supported by physiotherapists, speech and language therapists together with nursery nurses and occupational therapists.
We also offer the following (please click on each service to read more about them).
Patient Information
Tests and treatments:
- Lumbar Puncture
- Hydrocortisone injection
- The HCG test for adolescents ML5184
- The LHRH test ML5183
- The oral glucose tolerance test
- The short synacthen test
- What is a sleep EEG? (child)
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139
- Asthma_Viral Induced Wheeze Management Plan ML7540
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139 Romanian
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139Tigrinya
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139Bengali
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139 Polish
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139 Kurdish (sorani)
- Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139 Arabic
Conditions:
- Bronchiolitis
- The Clinical Psychology Service for children and young people with diabetes ML5497
- Congenital hypothyroidism ML4793
- Meningitis
- What are Febrile Convulsions
- Gastroenteritis
- Croup
- Iron in your child’s diet
- Epilepsy
- Medically unexplained physical symptoms ML4682
- Preventing pressure ulcers ML43082
- Cast Care and Advice for Ponseti Casts ML6690
Discharge and lifestyle advice:
- Egg allergy ML43831
- Fish and shellfish allergy ML44531
- Healthy eating for young people with type 1 diabetes (ML5336)
- Healthy lifestyle for young people with type 2 diabetes (ML4794)
- Milk allergy ML44491
- Nut allergy ML44511
- Sesame allergy ML44521
- Wheat allergy ML44541
- Discharge advice following a head injury
Services:
Useful Websites:
The website link below provides parents, carers and young people across the Black Country with consistent and high-quality advice from local health professionals. There is advice for every stage, from pregnancy and birth all the way through to nursery, school, and beyond.
Contacts
To contact the Paediatrics team, please call 0121 553 1831 and ask for the ward/service you wish to contact.
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