Paediatrics

Friarage Hospital

Paediatric acute services at the Friarage are integrated with the community services.  Doctors and nurses in the paediatric department work as a team and many have responsibility in the community as well as the hospital.  GPSTs are expected to spend time in hospital and the community, where they will gain hands on experience in baby clinics, immunisation clinics and school medicine.

There is a new 20-bedded children’s ward to which all children under 16 are admitted.  There is a 10 cotted special care baby unit, with two cots designated for short stay neo-natal intensive care.  Adjacent to the children's ward is the paediatric OPD, where in addition to general clinics there are clinics in paediatric orthopaedics, surgery, cardiology, neurology, genetics, urology and endocrinology with attending consultants from the regional centres.  Out reach children's clinics are also held in surrounding villages.

A child development centre and child and family psychiatric unit are in two large town houses near the hospital.  Regular formal and informal teaching sessions are held in the department, where it is felt that a good basic training is given in general paediatrics, without overwork or sleep deprivation to those with a good sense of humour and the ability to work as part of a team.

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