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Community Paediatrics service

Welcome to the Community Paediatrics website.

The Community Paediatrics (also known as Community Child Health) Department is part of Integrated Paediatric Services in Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, providing care for children and young people up to the age of 18 years. This is a multi professional team of doctors, specialist nurses, and an autism case co-ordinator, working together with the child and the family in Barnsley’s community. This is a proactive, highly dynamic and innovative service. The Community Paediatrics service works in close relationship with professionals and teams in other health, education, social care, CAMHS and children’s therapy services in Barnsley.

This department is based at New Street health Centre. The medical team comprises of a number of consultants and associate specialists supported by an epilepsy specialist nurse, nursery nurse and secretarial support.

The department works closely with all the agencies and the multidisciplinary teams in the community in addition to working in a complementary way with the hospital paediatric department. The department has evolved over the years to provide the following services:

• Assessment and management of children with a wide range of developmental problems and neuro disability
• Medical assessments of children with learning disabilities
• Joint Paediatric Neurology Muscle Clinic
• Joint Paediatric Orthopaedic
• Medical advice to education department 
• Pre adoption medical assessments
• Medical assessments of children looked after by local authority
• Medical assessments of children in need e.g. ‘neglect’ 
• Epilepsy service
• Enuresis clinic
• Assessment and management of sexual abuse
• Medical assessments of a wide range of paediatric problems at the request of schools, education welfare service, school nurses and health visitors 

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• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Child Development
• Complex Disability
• Enuresis
• Operational

Accessing the service

• Tel: 01226 432519

Key documents

• Referral Criteria

• Clinical support group
  Paediatrics
  
• Clinical support area
  Paediatrics
  
• Service type
  
  • Children's Specialist Services
  • Epilepsy
  
  
• Condition or indicators
  
  
• Provider
  Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  
• Fax number
  
• Email address
  
  
• Website
  
  
• Clinical support by body system
  Paediatrics
  
• Link
  
  
• Bypass detail page
  No
  
• Bypass detail page and
  

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