Intrapartum refers to the period of time from when labour starts to the birth of your baby. It also includes the first few hours after. If you are having an planned caesarean section, this refers to the day of your surgery.
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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.
The Public Health School Nursing Service works together with children, young people and their parents/carers to provide a comprehensive efficient and accessible service. We offer health assessment at transition points throughout a child’s life.
The health visiting and school health service works with families to support children and young people's development (ages 0 to 19), providing additional support, or information to help people find more support, when it is needed.
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The health visitor’s role starts during pregnancy and continues to offer support through the first few weeks after the birth and all the way through until early childhood.
All health visitors are nurses or midwives with specialist training in family and community health. They work with parents and their families to improve health and wellbeing.
We have provided some answers to questions we commonly receive about immunisations which you might find helpful.
Our maternity services are based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. We have one of the biggest maternity units in the UK.
Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) is an NHS working group: a team of women and their families, commissioners, midwives, doctors and health care professionals working together to review and contribute to the development of local maternity care.
Every year, as part of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), children in reception class (aged four to five years) and Year Six (aged 10 to 11 years) have their height and weight measured during the school year.
If you have a condition affecting your mouth, jaw, neck, cheekbones, forehead or face you will be seen by a member of our specialist oral and maxillofacial surgery team.
You may also be referred to us if via our Emergency Department (A&E) if you have a facial injury, and require further treatment or reconstructive surgery.
You will be referred to one of our specialist clinics if you: