Archive: Paediatrics

The content of this advice is adapted from the NICE guideline ‘Constipation in children and young people: diagnosis and management of idiopathic childhood constipation in primary and secondary care’,...

Children’s Community Nursing Service The Children’s Community Nursing Team provides a range of services to support children, young people and their families at home and in the community. We...

This information is provided by Chiltern CCG Children and Young People Urgent Care Board. To view the leaflet, please visit: http://tvscn.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Buckinghamshire-Pathways-and-Leaflets.pdf...

Basal rate testing is designed to help check how well the basal (background) insulin is working. If the basal insulin is working effectively, blood glucose levels should remain stable...

Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN) affects babies in the first few weeks to months after birth. HDN makes the baby’s red blood cells break up more quickly than...

Introduction National guidance recommends that NHS organisations should establish the pregnancy status of all females between 11 and 55 years before they have certain procedures and treatments. Keeping patients...

A midwife, nurse or doctor has spoken to you in regards to safeguarding concerns that we have about you. This leaflet contains information about the process that will now...

  Overview of Children’s Services At Milton Keynes University Hospital, we have special area or ward to look after children and young people if you need to stay in...

What is it? Recurrent (functional) abdominal pain is a common difficulty where children and young people experience frequent bouts of stomach pain over an extended period of time. The...

This leaflet aims to give parents and carers an outline of the ways in which pain is assessed at Milton Keynes University Hospital. Q – Why is it so...