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Our children’s endocrinology and diabetes service is a regional centre for children with hormonal disorders, including diabetes.
Our team run an extensive range of clinics in diabetes, general endocrinology and growth.
Alongside this we run specialist clinics for children with Turner Syndrome and Metabolic Syndrome.
We also run a number of joint clinics with other clinical colleagues specialising in:
The children’s ear, nose and throat (ENT) service is for young patients, from newborn to 16 years old.
Conditions we treat
We provide services to treat common childhood ENT complaints such as:
- persistently runny or blocked noses
- breathing problems
- throat infections
- nasal speech
- snoring.
This might include procedures such as:
We are a registered charity set up in 1990 in Newcastle upon Tyne, at a time when the North East had the worst levels of child health in the country (Government report Health of the Nation 1990).
Our children’s gastroenterology and nutrition unit cares for children with disorders of the gut, liver and pancreas, as well as children with nutritional problems.
Based at the Great North Children’s Hospital, our team includes:
- expert consultants
- specialist dieticians
- paediatric pharmacists
- highly-trained paediatric nurses.
We provide a wide range of diagnostic and treatment services for children from across northern England.
The Children’s Audiology service can help with children’s hearing aids, their fitting, hearing aid reviews and repairs.
The Children’s Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital provides care for children up to 18 years old who need medical or surgical help for conditions involving the heart, lungs and airways.
It is one of two units in the UK to carry out heart and lung transplants on children.
We are the only centre in the country to provide all cardiac care from conception, through birth, childhood and on to adulthood.
CHIPS is a specialist service designed to provide expert palliative care support for babies, children and young people with serious and life-threatening conditions and their families.
The service works alongside the other clinical teams who are caring for them.
CHIPS is a regional service supporting babies, children and young people across the North East and north Cumbria.
Our infectious diseases service looks after children admitted to the hospital with severe infections.
Together with the microbiologists and virologists, we also advise other teams looking after children with infections such as osteomyelitis or meningitis.
We advise on:
- diagnostic tests
- which antibiotics to use – either by cannula or medicine, or tablets – and for how long.
With this advice we aim to get the best results with as few side-effects as possible.
Children’s intensive care provides medical and nursing care for critically ill children from birth to 16 years.
Children can become critically ill when one or more of their organs start to fail. This can cause them to become so ill there is a risk that they may die.
Children’s intensive care aims to support children through their illness until they recover to continue life with their family.
Critical illness can be cause by a number of reasons
We provide a comprehensive regional children’s kidney disease (nephrology) service for the North East and North Cumbria.
One of only thirteen specially designated centres for children’s nephrology in the UK, we look after children from childbirth up to the age of 18 years.
Our service is mainly led by consultants and specialist nurses who are specially trained to be able to diagnose and treat acute kidney injury (sudden kidney failure), as well chronic kidney disease (long term kidney failure).
Our children’s neurology department is the only specialist neurology service in the North East and Cumbria.
We provide highly advanced treatments for disorders of the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles.
This includes treatment for:
Our children’s orthopaedic service cares for children and young people with disorder and injuries to muscles, tendons, joints, bones and nerves.
We aim to provide our children with the best possible orthopaedic care at the Great North Children’s Hospital.
We provide specialist respiratory care for children and young people.
Our children’s respiratory unit provides specialist respiratory care for children in the North East. Patients are referred to us from local paediatricians and GPs.
We support patients at the Great North Children’s Hospital and the Freeman Hospital.
Our staff are familiar with the specific needs of children, and we care for our young patients on dedicated wards and outpatient departments.
Our children’s rheumatology team care for children and young people with rheumatic diseases.
Our specialist services include the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of children’s rheumatic diseases. We also provide education and ongoing support.
We are the only children’s rheumatology team outside London to provide autologous stem-cell treatment for children with the most severe rheumatological problems.
The service also has one of the UK’s largest research programmes into children’s rheumatology diseases.
We provide many types of routine and emergency surgery for children of all ages in the Great North Children’s Hospital at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Our team see children from across the North of England, from Leeds to Edinburgh, and Whitehaven to Tynemouth.
Conditions we treat
We treat children who have a range of conditions including;
Our Children’s urology and stoma care service provides care, support and education for children with bladder and bowel dysfunction.
We have an experienced team of specialist nurses, paediatric doctors and surgeons.
Together, we cover the entire northern region – from the Scottish border to Teesside and across to Cumbria. We also care for patients who live outside of the region.
A cleft lip is a gap in the upper lip and a cleft palate is a gap in the roof of the mouth.
We also see people who may be experiencing speech problems related to how well their palate is working for speech even when there is no obvious cleft palate.
Our service is operated by an experienced team of specialists from a range of clinical disciplines, including:
Our dermatology department is child friendly and we have a highly skilled team of Nurse Specialists and a Nursery Nurse to help distract our young patients.
We know that coming into hospital can often be upsetting for children and their parents. To help make your child’s experience as stress free as possible, we have a special clinic just for children in our Dermatology Outpatient Department.
Most of our patients are referred to us by GPs, but we also see patients from other hospitals across the region.
Our dermatology experts in Newcastle help to diagnose and treat hundreds of patients every year and care for both adults and children.
They run a number of general and specialist dermatology clinics and deal with a wide range of conditions and diseases affecting the skin, mucous membranes, hair and nails.
Some of our specialists also perform dermatological surgical procedures such as Mohs micrographic surgery (a type of surgery for removing certain types of skin cancer), laser surgery and some cosmetic surgery.
Antenatal refers to the period of time from when you get pregnant up to the point you go into labour. Regular antenatal appointments help us to ensure that you and your baby are healthy. It will also help us to recognise when input from our specialist antenatal services might be necessary.
Our expertise is recognised across the region for our skills, facilities and specialist services. We provide a range of emergency and non-emergency services for both children and adults, these include:
Newcastle’s Endocrine surgery department provides first-class care for patients who need surgical treatment for benign and malignant conditions affecting the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands.
The team looks after both adults and children, and works closely alongside endocrinologists, ENT surgeons, oncologists (cancer specialists), radiologists and pathologists, and our clinical nurse specialists. This multidisciplinary approach ensures each patient we see is provided with a treatment pathway tailored to their particular condition.
We treat patients who need elective surgery in addition to emergency cases.
The centre, based at the Claremont Wing at the RVI, has state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment facilities for medical and surgical conditions affecting the eye, including:
The Fracture Clinic is based in the New Victoria Wing at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and provides an outpatient service for both children and adults, usually following a bone fracture.
You can be referred to this clinic by your GP, or you may be sent here following a visit to either the Emergency Department, Walk in Centre or Minor Injury Unit.
Nurse Practitioners run special clinics to review patients with fractures, in particular those who have fractured a hip.
The Great North Children's Hospital provides the full range of children's health services, all tailored to each and every child - we call this patient-centred care.