The Children’s Out-Patients Department

This clinic is held twice monthly with a consultant. This clinic allows children with suspected allergies to be assessed and tested.

Consultant: Dr Bhole

This clinic runs weekly with the consultant and asthma clinical nurse specialist. Investigations may include lung function tests.

Asthma is a condition that affects the airways- the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs.

1 in 11 children in the UK have Asthma.

A child/young person with asthma has ‘sensitive’ airways ready to react to things that can irritate them- this includes pollen, pets, cold weather and mould.

When the airways react they become narrower, even more irritated and can create more mucus.

This causes the child/young person to have asthma symptoms and means they find it hard to breathe.

Consultant: Dr Gorst

Asthma Clinical Nurse Specialist: Emma Harriman

Asthma and respiratory conditions

These clinics are weekly, seeing patients with emotional and behavioural conditions and neurodevelopment disorders.

Our Behaviour and Neurodevelopment Service (sometimes referred to as BEN) provides information, advice, guidance and treatment for children, young people and their families where neurodevelopmental disorders are suspected (pre-diagnosis) and diagnosed.

Consultant: Dr Yeshwanth, Dr Mahadevan, Dr Wilegoda

Neurodevelopment Clinical Nurse Specialist: Clair Horne

This is a multi-disciplinary clinic with the consultant, a clinical nurse specialist & dietitian. In addition, monthly transitional care diabetes clinics are held for teenagers with adult diabetologists to aid their transition to adult care.

If your child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, they'll be looked after by a children's (paediatric) diabetes care team until they're around 18. 

The care team will help with the things needed to manage your child's type 1 diabetes, such as injecting insulin, testing blood glucose levels, and diet.

They can give advice on school or nursery, and talk to your child's teachers and carers. 

You'll have appointments with the care team every 1 or 2 weeks at first. When you're starting to manage OK, these will be every 3 months. 

Consultant: Dr Petkar

Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialists: Jo ELford, Rachel Ellis, Sam Northern, Cat Robinson

This clinic is held twice monthly and deals with children with growth disorders, pubertal disorders and thyroid problems.

Consultant: Dr Petkar

This clinic is held twice weekly, in addition, a transition clinic is held monthly with the consultant and the epilepsy clinical nurse specialist.

Epilepsy is one of the most common medical conditions affecting the brain and it can affect people of all ages. People with epilepsy have recurrent seizures, so having one seizure doesn’t necessarily mean a child has epilepsy.

Consultant: Dr More.

Epilepsy Clinical Nurse Specialist: Fiona Wortley.

This clinic runs most days and deals with a variety of conditions including uncomplicated asthma, growth concerns, failure to thrive, constipation and abdominal pain.

Paediatrics can be divided into 4 main areas:

• general paediatrics - a hospital role covering children from birth to the age of 16. Most paediatricians have this generalist role
• neonatology - this role specialises in looking after newly born babies. It is usually based in an intensive care unit looking after premature babies or those with problems at birth
• community paediatrics - these doctors are based in the community and look after children with developmental, social or behavioural problems and those with a physical disability
• paediatric cardiology - this is a small area which is a specialty in its own right. These doctors diagnose and treat children with cardiac (heart) conditions

All Consultants

This clinic runs monthly, seeing patients with any rheumatology symptoms or conditions.

he Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Service is provided by a multi-disciplinary team looking after children and young people with rheumatic disease across the West Midlands and beyond.

We see 650 new patients a year and reassure and manage many hundreds of patients, and their concerned parents, with non-inflammatory musculoskeletal conditions.

Conditions

We treat a range of conditions:

• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA): We provide highly specialised care from diagnosis to holistic treatment including access to joint injections under general anaesthetic, with ultrasound guidance if required, followed by tailored physiotherapy and occupational therapy input. We offer the scope of drug treatments recommended for patients with arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Juvenile dermatomyositis
• Scleroderma and systemic sclerosis
• Vasculitides of all subtypes
• Behcet’s disease
• Autoinflammatory diseases (genetic periodic fever syndromes)

Consultant: Dr Tadrous

This clinic is held twice weekly. Investigations may include echocardiograms and ECG’s.

Paediatric cardiologists are doctors who diagnose and treat children with cardiac (heart) conditions. They work with patients antenatally (before birth), through childhood and into adulthood.

Consultant: Dr Luke

This clinic is held weekly, seeing patients with varying conditions relating to bones. In addition, a clinic is held monthly for patients with complex needs. 

We also hold a weekly hip dysplasia clinic.

Consultant: Miss Spiteri, Mr Bache

This clinic is held twice weekly and sees patients with genetic disorders. It is held by a visiting consultant from Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

Consultant: Dr Vogt

This clinic is held weekly, alternating consultants and sees patients with varying skin conditions.

Consultant: Dr Verpetinske, Dr Al- Rusan, Dr Madgogoria, Dr Abdullah

This clinic is held weekly and sees patients with all gastro-related disorders.

Consultant: Dr Mahadevan

Gastro Clinical Nurse Specialist: Jemima Saunders

This clinic is held monthly, seeing patients with varying conditions needing surgical intervention.

Consultant: Miss Shiralker

This clinic is held twice weekly and are run by one of our hospital play specialists. This clinic allows the child and caregivers to be prepared for upcoming surgical procedures.

This clinic is held weekly, seeing patients with respiratory disorders including any sleep related disorders.

Consultant: Dr Gorst, Dr Thompson

This clinic is run by a specially trained midwife. It is held tri-weekly and sees babies under 10weeks of age who require division of tongue tie, to aid their feeding.