Community Paediatricians

We provide medical advice, assessments, diagnosis and treatment for children and young people in Berkshire up to age 18 (or 19, if still in full time education).

Please check our Health and Development pages for any relevant self help techniques.

Our team helps manage a range of childhood disabilities and disorders through our community clinics. We run a variety of different specialist clinics providing child-centred assessment and management of developmental problems and social communication difficulties. Please see our referral criteria below.

We also provide statutory assessments for Child Protection, Children in Care and EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan). Referrals for Child Protection Medical for acute physical abuse should be made via the central hub at Wexham Park Hospital. The social worker should contact the safeguarding team at Wexham Park Hospital on 0300 615 3879 as early as possible between 9am-4pm Monday to Friday and arrangements will be made.

Referral criteria

We accept professional referrals from Health, Education and Social Care colleagues. We do not accept direct referrals from parents/carers.

We accept referrals where the following are present:

Diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Condition: suspected autism from the age of 2-5 years (referral received before age 5 years). Before referral the possibility of autism must be discussed with the parent/carer by the referrer and clearly documented in the referral.
Isolated Motor Delay
Delay/disorder in two or more developmental domains (for example motor skills and communication).
Any developmental regression ie loss of developmental skills in any area.
Diagnosed or suspected motor and movement disorders, such as cerebral palsy.
Congenital condition (suspected or diagnosed) associated with developmental delay eg Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, neurofibromatosis, neurometabolic disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and syndromes with associated learning disabilities and/or developmental delay.
Significant learning disability in children of school age where an underlying inherited/medical condition is suspected as the cause.
Aetiological investigations for hearing impairment.
Chronic medical conditions associated with long-term neurodisability, such as patients with suspected or confirmed cerebral palsy, spina-bifida, muscular dystrophy, or acquired brain injury.
Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia) - The service will carry out a single medical assessment to assess for any underlying medical disorders only, an occupational therapy assessment needs to be completed before the referral.

When to get help elsewhere

We do not support with the following concerns:

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Our clinics

Our East Berkshire teams operate from our main clinics in Upton Hospital, St Marks Hospital and the Child Development Centre in Bracknell, as well as clinics in Arbour Vale School in Slough, Manor Green School in Maidenhead and Kennel Lane School in Bracknell.

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We ask parents/carer attends with their child, and that other arrangements are made for siblings wherever possible.

Our clinics are designed specifically for children and young people. We have child changing facilities, access for pushchairs/wheelchairs, and disabled, children and family car parking spaces at the front of our clinics.

We aim to be flexible and can adapt to our patients’ clinical needs, social circumstances, ethnicity and culture

How to access support

East Berkshire

If you live within East Berkshire, we accept referrals from GPs or other health professionals, including health visitors and school nurses who’ve been working with your child as per the referral criteria above.

Once we’ve accepted a referral, we’ll allocate a doctor and arrange to see your child within 18 weeks. We’ll confirm the appointment date approximately three weeks in advance.

If we can’t accept the referral, we’ll notify the person who made the referral immediately. Visit our referrals page here.