Children & Young People's Services Resource guide for professionals

The Starlight UnitStarlight Ward provides inpatient accommodation for children or young people up to the age of 16years who need admission for further assessment or treatment. Children or young people are caredfor by a team of children’s nurses in a dedicated ward. The service is led by a team of ConsultantPaediatricians who oversee the assessment, treatment and review of children, with the aim ofensuring early discharge home with on-going access to and support from the consultant team orwith input from the Children’s Community Nursing Team until the child or young person is ready tobe discharged back to their GP.Telephone: 020 8510 7450/7395(See pages 14 – 16 for outpatients information)5.2 Community Paediatric ServicesThe community paediatric team is made up of six consultants, two associate specialists, twospeciality paediatricians and five paediatricians in training. They have a pivotal role in thesupervision and co-ordination of care for the individual child/young person and their family. Theteam works across universal, targeted and specialist services providing services in three principalareas:• child development and disability, including audiology and the assessment of children with specialeducational needs;• child protection and looked after children; and• child public health including immunisation and obesity. There is a named paediatrician for each schoolin Hackney and locality clinics for children with common developmental problems as well as for obesityand enuresis (bed wetting).Services are based at Hackney Ark and Hackney Community College but delivered at the HackneyArk and in a range of other community venues including clinics, schools and nurseries. Referrals areaccepted primarily from health professionals but are also accepted from social care and education.The service lead is Dr Gabrielle Laing (Consultant Community Paediatrician and Associate MedicalDirector) – contact details as below:Community Health ServicesDefoe Block, 50 Hoxton Street,London N1 6LP020 7683 4691Referrals to Defoe Building (HackneyCommunity College) for the following clinics:• Special advisory clinics• Enuresis• Obesity• Growth• School and statutory assessments• Safeguarding, looked after children• Immunisation• General enquiriesThe Hackney ArkChildren and Young People’s Centre ForDevelopment and Disability, Downs Park Road,London E8 2FP020 7014 7000Referrals to Hackney Ark for the followingclinics:• Development and disability• Complex communication• Developmental/pre-term follow up• Vision• Audiology• Physical assessment clinicResource Guide for professionals | Updated January 2013 13