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