Inpatient Services for Children in Lewisham
The Children’s Inpatient Ward consists of 16 beds/cots and provides a wide range of medical services for children and young people.
It also houses specialised services for cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, and includes a four-bedded adolescent bay, which provides an appropriate environment for teenagers in need of medical, surgical and nursing care.
Location |
1st Floor |
|
---|---|---|
Contact |
You can call the ward directly on 020 8333 3141 or 020 8333 3015. |
Who is the service for?
The service cares for children aged 0-16 years with a variety of medical conditions.
What services are provided?
The service provides inpatient care for children aged 0-16 years with both medical and minor surgical conditions, including:
- Neonatology
- Haemoglobinopathy
- Respiratory Medicine
- Diabetics
- Minor Surgeries
- Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)
- Orthopaedics
- Medical day case facilities
How can you get a referral?
Children are admitted directly from the Children’s Emergency Department and Outpatients Department.
Why choose Lewisham Children’s Inpatient Services?
Children’s Inpatient Services are supported by a full range of paediatric medical staff – consultant paediatrician, ENT and Orthopaedic team, junior doctors team, nursing staff, play staff and professions allied to medicine; physiotherapist, dietician, pharmacist.
What else do people need to know?
Chaplaincy
- The Chapel is in the Waterloo block.
- The Hospital Chaplains are available to offer support and spiritual or religious care 24 hours a day for any patients, relatives or friends.
Doctors' Rounds
- 8am
- 4pm on weekdays
- 9pm
Facilities for resident parents and carers
- For fire safety, only one parent or carer may be resident with their child overnight
- Camp beds are provided for use between 8pm and 8am
- The Harris Suite has five rooms for resident family. These rooms are intended for those whose child is critically ill and live very far from the hospital
- The Parents’ Lounge is located at the back of the receptionists’ desk. It has soft chairs, settee, a coffee table and a television.
Food and drink
- We provide meals for patients and breast-feeding mothers
- Discounts are available on hot meals for carers whose children are in hospital for two days or longer
- There are also hot and cold drinks machines in the Parent’s Lounge, which are coin operated
- The hospital restaurant is located just outside the Children’s Inpatient ward and serves both hot and cold dishes. Hot food is served till 3pm. It is open from:
- 7am to 6pm - Monday to Friday
- 8am to 4pm - Weekend
- In the interest of safety, parents are not allowed to take their hot drinks or food on the ward.
Meal times for Children and Young People
- Breakfast: 8am
- Lunch: 12pm
- Dinner: 5pm
Multi-sensory room
- This is particularly useful and therapeutic to those with sensory impairment.
Nurse shift times
- 7.30am to 8.30pm
- 8pm to 8am
Parking
- Car parking within the hospital grounds is very limited but there are spaces available.
- Parking can be arranged for parent/carers with children admitted to hospital for a reduced fee of £6-00 per day.
Playroom
- Open on weekdays between 8am and 4pm.
- Supported by play specialists who are also very experienced in preparing children for various procedures and treatments.
- Siblings can only use the playroom under the supervision of parents/carers.
- Food and drinks are not allowed in the playroom.
School room
- Open during term time from 9.30am to 2.45pm.
- Two teachers are available.
- If well enough, all school age children are legally required to attend.
- School age children who do not attend will not be allowed in the playroom during school hours.
Facilities for teenagers
- There is a lounge for teenagers next to the teenager bay on the Children’s Inpatient Ward.
- It has a settee, soft chairs, television, computer games, and music centre.
- This is intended solely for their own use.
Televisions and telephones (Patientline)
- There is a television and telephone service called Patientline beside each bed on the ward. The television is active between 10am and 9pm and is free.
- Outgoing telephone calls can be made with the purchase of a Patientline telephone card. Cards can be obtained from a machine outside the ward.
- There is also a pay phone just in front of the ward kitchen for outgoing calls.