Paediatric General Medicine at St George's Hospital

The General Paediatric Medicine service at St George's Healthcare Trust is a comprehensive consultant led service diagnosing and managing a range of common childhood conditions. There are five consultants who participate in a consultant of the week rota doing daily ward rounds and reviews.

Paediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with children and childhood diseases. Consequently there is a multi-disciplinary approach involving amongst others, haematologists, cardiologists, neurologists, dieticians, Clinical Nurse Specialists, psychologists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, play specialists and pharmacists.

This service offers:

• The General Paediatricians aim to provide excellent care to children with a range of common medical problems.
• They support other specialist teams in providing family centered and holistic care for children with complex medical problems.
• There is strong multidisciplinary support from dieticians, Clinical Nurse Specialists, psychologists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, play specialists and pharmacists.
• The Consultants hold general paediatric clinics every week where new referrals and ward follow-ups are seen.In addition, there are rapid referral clinics where children who need more urgent assessment can be seen by the paediatric team (see above).
• All the General Paediatricians have subspecialty interests.
• There is a consultant paediatrician on site until 21:00 every evening.

Dr Sarah Thurlbeck provides advice to GPs via Kinesis