Our community paediatric services are made up of a team of specialist children's doctors with skills and expertise in child development, immunisation, social and educational paediatrics.
The services do not usually deal with one-off, short term illness, but rather, offers long term support, co-ordination of services and management on a continuous basis to many children with 'special needs', such as a disability or long term illness.
Much of child health work is of a statutory nature, carried out under the Children Act, the Education Act and Adoption Regulations.
We have two community paediatric teams:
