Service Information
Children’s health community services
Community children’s health
The community paediatrics team work in partnership with the children’s health departments at Ipswich and Colchester hospitals.
The community paediatrics service will:
- assess and help your child if they have a developmental impairment
- assess and help your child if they have a physical or learning disability
- assess and help your child if they have complex health needs
- carry out specialist assessments of school-age children if there is a concern about a neuro-developmental disorder such as ADHD
- provide medical advice for education healthcare plans (EHCP)
- provide medical advice for safeguarding children and child protection
We work with other agencies:
- speech and language therapists
- occupational therapists
- physiotherapists
- health visitors
- school nurses
- emotional wellbeing and mental health service (EWMHS)
- hospital doctors
- social workers
- schools
Clinic locations
We hold clinics at various ESNEFT sites. Please check your appointment letter for details.