- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Best Start Programme
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
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- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Care management
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Children’s Community Therapies
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community rehabilitation
- Community Respiratory
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Continence
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- District nursing
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
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- FINCH Service
- Foot Health
- Gastroenterology
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- Homeless Team
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- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
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- Neurophysiology
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- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy (Community Musculoskeletal) Service
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
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- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- School Nursing
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Tissue Viability
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
- Wheelchair services
- Young Parents Maternity Service
- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecological Cancer – Genetic Testing
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
Paediatrics
The service aims to provide high quality and responsive care to meet the needs of the children, young people and their families across the area and is the largest paediatric department in the West Midlands.
The main wards are situated at Sandwell Hospital, but we also have services at City Hospital, including the Children’s Emergency Care Unit (CECU) and outpatient clinics in the Birmingham Treatment Centre and community locations. We provide tailored services for a wide range of specialties lead by a team of specialists. For more information please see the services tab.
We have an excellent clinical team including highly qualified specialist consultants and nurses.
To keep up to date with all relevant advice and treatments for a wide range of conditions please see our patient information page which provides links to multiple information leaflets.
For more information about disabled access for this service, please click here.
Team
The Trust has 21 consultants covering pediatrics. All nursing staff on the Unit are qualified and/or have experience in looking after children and young people.
City Hospital and Sandwell General Hospital are both teaching hospitals and you may be asked if you mind student doctors and student nurses participating in your child’s care. You are not obliged and may decline to participate, but we do need your help in order to train future doctors and nurses and would appreciate your co-operation.
If you are interested in working with the team go to https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ where you can find our latest job vacancies.
Team:
Group Director for Women’s and Child Health
Professor Nick Makwana
Group Director of Operations
Jade Payne
Group Director of Nursing
Cheryl Newton
Head of Service ( General Manager)
Sharondeep Nagra
Clinical Director
Dr Maria Atkinson
Acute Paediatric Matron
Jackie Williams
Clinical Lead Acute and Community Paediatrics
Petrina Marsh
Consultants:
Dr Rajesh Pandey, Specialties:Neurodisability and Epilepsy
Dr Juliana Chizo Agwu
Hon. Associate Professor / Deputy Cheif Medical Officer
Specialty: Clinical Lead in Paediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology
Dr Meenakshi Bandhakavi
Specialty: Diabetes and Endocrinology
Dr Dilip Kumar Gandhi
Designated Doctor for Safeguarding Children Sandwell
Specialties: Epilepsy, Neurodisability
Dr Chetana Kallappa
Specialty: Clinical Lead for Epilepsy and Sleep disorders
Professor Nick Makwana,
Honorary Professor ( Insitute of Clinical Sciences), University of Birmingham Specialty: Clinical Lead for Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dr Maria Atkinson
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine and Allergy
Dr Ribena Akhter
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Dr Leah Simpson
Specialty: Nephrology
Dr Gaurav Popli
Specialty: Haematology and Gastroenterology
Named Doctor for Safeguarding
Dr Fatima Zahir
Specialty:Emergency Medicine
Dr Yvonne Beuvink
Specialty:Infectious Diseases and Allergy
Dr Sofia Omar
Speciality:Infectious Diseases and Allergy
Dr Charlotte Avann
Speciality: Diabetes and Endocrinology
Dr Saaduz Zaman
Speciality:Rheumatology
Dr Atanu Mukherjee
Speciality: Respiratory Medicine and Allergy.
Dr Sohail Nassir
Dr Fozia Roked (Due to Commence in Post November 2023)
Dr Amrit Dhesi
Speciality: Allergy
Dr Indu Mahabeer
Designated Doctor for Children in Care, Medical Advisor
Speciality: Neurodisability
Dr Menik Upatissa
Speciality: Neurodisability
Services
We treat children aged from 0-16 years. We also care for some young people aged over 16 years who have needs better facilitated in a paediatric environment.
We have inpatient and outpatient facilities within Sandwell and City Hospitals. However, we also have community teams to support our children and families to help prevent admission to hospital and achieve safe early discharges.
The Children’s Services provides safe care for infants, children, young people and their families. within Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. This provision consists of both assessment, short stay, inpatient, adolescent services and high dependency care. There are dedicated facilities to allow parents to stay with their child during their hospital admission.
Peadiatric Assessment Unit ( PAU – City Hospital)
This consists of a six-bedded short stay unit for children requiring a short period of observation of up to 18 hours. Children are assessed and treated before either being discharged, or admitted to an inpatient ward.
Children requiring more than an 18-hour stay are transferred to the inpatient children’s unit at Sandwell Hospital. The unit is staffed 24 hours, seven days per week by nurses and medical staff that are trained in all aspects of paediatric care, including children requiring high-dependency care and resuscitation.
Children are treated in the unit for a wide range of conditions and attend as walk-in patients, GP/community referrals, or emergency ambulance admissions.
Lyndon Ground:
This is an 18-bed Paediatric Assessment Unit which also houses an inpatient adolescent area and short-stay beds.
Lyndon One:
This is a 24-bed inpatient facility that houses a dedicated HDU ( high dependency ) Unit.
Medical Day / Priory Ground and Children’s outpatients (OPD):
We are a cross-site team that covers outpatients, investigations, and day surgery. We work closely with our long-term patients and their families for continuing care needs.
Children’s Out-Patients
We provide a cross-site outpatient service and offer a range of specialist clinics for children. We also operate community clinics from community locations.
These include:
- General clinics
- Allergies – click here to find out more about this service.
- Cardiology (heart problems)
- Developmental
- Diabetes
- Endocrine (glandular problems)
- Epilepsy (convulsions and fits)
- Haematology (blood disorders)
- Rheumatology
- Respiratory and Asthma
- Sleep Disorders
- Gastroenterology
- Infectious Diseases
- Epilepsy
- Genetics
- Looked after children
- General orthopedic surgery (bones and joints)
- General plastic surgery
- General surgery
- Renal (kidneys)
- Rheumatology (joints, muscles and tendons)
- General urology (reproductive organs and waste urine issues)
There is also a sophisticated radiology department at both Sandwell and City Hospitals that offer X-Ray, CT and MRI scanning.
Specialist support for children’s services comes from pharmacy, laboratory services and many other medical areas. Community services are supported by physiotherapists, speech and language therapists together with nursery nurses and occupational therapists.
We also offer the following (please click on each service to read more about them).
Patient Stories
Please feel free to share your experiences of this service. Please e-mail your views to swbh.comms@nhs.net
Patient Information
Parent/carer information leaflets
Tests and treatments:
Lumbar Puncture
Hydrocortisone injection
Sophies having an EEG
The arginine test
The hydrocortisone day curve test
The HCG test
The HCG test for adolescents
The IGF-1 generation test
The LHRH test
The oral glucose tolerance test
The short synacthen test
What is a sleep EEG? (child)
Hip Ultrasound Scan ML7139
Conditions:
Bronchiolitis
The Clinical Psychology Service for children and young people with diabetes ML5497
Congenital hypothyroidism
Meningitis
What are Febrile Convulsions
Gastroenteritis
Croup
Iron in your child’s diet
Epilepsy
Medically unexplained physical symptoms
Preventing pressure ulcers
Cast Care and Advice for Ponseti Casts ML6690
Discharge and lifestyle advice:
Egg allergy
Fish and shellfish allergy
Healthy eating for young people with type 1 diabetes (ML5336)
Healthy lifestyle for young people with type 2 diabetes
Milk allergy
Nut allergy
Sesame allergy
Wheat allergy
Discharge advice following a head injury
Services:
Clinical Psychology Service
Paediatric Community Nursing Team
Contacts
To contact the Paediatrics team, please call 0121 553 1831 and ask for the ward/service you wish to contact.