The Audiology department have a number of trained staff who specialise in children’s hearing. The team will test children’s hearing and provide help and advice for children with hearing loss.
Health services in Milton Keynes
Information on the health services available in Milton Keynes to support children and young people aged 0 - 25 years, each area provides a summary of the service, alongside details of support and advice and contact details.
Audiology
Children's Physiotherapy
Physiotherapists are responsible for the assessment and physical rehabilitation of those needing treatment due to accident, injury, illness, disease or disability.
Children’s Universal Health Services
Children's Universal Health Services are a service that is available for all pregnant women, children, families and young people in Milton Keynes. All our services are provided within the integrated 0-19 team and include Health Visiting and School Nursing. We aim to help to empower parents, children and young people to make decisions that affect their and their family’s health, development and wellbeing.
Our staff consist of health visitors, school nurses, staff nurses, nursery nurses, healthcare assistants and administrators. Health visitors and school nurses are all qualified nurses or midwives who have undertaken specialist training in public health, child development and health needs assessment.
Community Paediatrician
Milton Keynes Community Paediatric Team supports children with developmental problems because of complex needs, disabilities or long-term conditions, enabling them to achieve their maximum potential.
Community paediatricians are specialist children’s doctors with training and expertise in developmental paediatrics and disability, social paediatrics (including child protection), educational paediatrics and public health for children.
Complex Needs Nursing Team
Milton Keynes Children with Complex Needs Service offers home care and medical supplies for children with complex needs.
The service provides nursing care and support to families of children who have complex medical needs, palliative care needs, including end-of-life care, complex epilepsy, haemoglobinopathies, neurodisability and degenerative conditions, and the management of complex continence issues. A small respite provision is available within the team for the youngest children who are not eligible for social care respite or nursery provision.
Read more about Complex Needs Nursing Team.
Supporting the Redway School
Children and young people attending The Redway School are supported throughout the school day by the Nurses from the Paediatric Complex Needs Nursing Team.
Read more information on support at the Redway school.
Continence Service
Continence support for 0-18 years. If you have concerns about your child , please contact your Health Visitor for the 0-5 years or School Nurse 5-19 years. They will be able to explore any daytime or night time wetting issues and independent toileting difficulties and provide advice and support. If the Health Visitor or School Nurse feels this is longer term difficulty due to complex needs, they will be able to make a referral to a specialist service ( Complex Needs Nursing Team ) for the provision of incontinence products. In the first instance, contact your Health visitor or School Nurse on the link below. This also has informative advice and resources from ERIC, a children’s continence and bowel charity:
The Continence Service for over 18s can be accessed in the link below:
Milton Keynes Continence Team :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (cnwl.nhs.uk)
Dietitian
The department of Nutrition and Dietetics provides nutrition and dietary advice to patients, carers and staff in inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
The department covers a wide range of areas including; Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Critical Care, Dysphagia, Enteral and Parenteral feeding, Paediatrics, Stroke, Oncology, and learning disabilities.
Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Services
Milton Keynes Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Services
Early Years Speech and Language Therapy
The service is for pre-school age children (0 - to rising five years) with speech and language difficulties. Children must be registered with a Milton Keynes general practitioner (GP).
Covers hearing impairment, cleft lip and palate, social communication difficulties, dysfluency, speech and language disorders, augmentative and alternative communication.
Milton Keynes Early Years SLT Team works with pre-school children with speech and language difficulties
Early Years Complex Needs Team
This service is for pre-school age children (0 - rising 5 years) with feeding, swallowing, and speech and language difficulties. Children must be registered with a Milton Keynes general practitioner (GP).
Milton Keynes Early Years Complex Needs SLT Team is a specialist team which develops the communication, eating and drinking skills of pre-school age children with long term disabilities.
Speech and Language Therapy Team for schools
The Schools Speech and Language Therapy Team provides services to primary, secondary schools and some specialist education provision within Milton Keynes. It offers specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children and young people as well as training for staff working in education. Your child's Special Educational Needs Coodinator (SENCo) can refer to our service.
Therapist working in this team provide a service to school age pupils who:
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Have speech, language and communication needs.
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Are registered with a Milton Keynes general practitioner (GP).
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Attend a primary or secondary mainstream school in Milton Keynes.
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Attend language or communication departments and those who are deaf or hearing impaired.
The service is provided within schools and focuses on supporting learning and promoting social participation.
Hospital Paediatric Services
Paediatricians manage medical conditions affecting infants, children and young people.
Read more about Milton Keynes Hospital Paediatric Services here.
Occupational Therapy
Milton Keynes Children and Young People’s Occupational Therapy Team support children and young people (CYP) who have significant difficulties with everyday functional skills due to a physical, motor or sensory-based need that impacts on their independence and ability to participate in everyday activities. We aim to support children to achieve their potential in everyday life.
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology is based in the Eye Clinic at Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH)
We run clinics for both adult and paediatric patients Monday to Friday by appointment only.
Read more on Ophthalmology here and for a full list of services and support at MKUH please visit their site.
Orthotics
The Orthotics department at Milton Keynes University Hospital supports patients of all ages, from our newborn babies through to our elderly population.
The core brief of the department is to choose, design and prescribe orthotic devices to support, control and improve the way the patient’s body or body segment works and to stop the symptoms that are being experienced.
Our team work with patients with a wide variety of diagnosis, from heel pain to head protection for patients on the Autistic spectrum. Our experts see patients with pre or post-surgery concerns, whatever their disability.
Specialist Dental Services
Buckinghamshire Priority Dental Service (BPDS) aims to provide an assessment and treatment service for those adults and children who would not or could not, by virtue of their additional needs, access dentistry in General Dental Practice.
Read more on Specialist Dental Services here.
The NHS have provided information about dental treatment for people with SEND, which you may find useful.
