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Paediatric Network Unit: Leeds
Unit Name and Address
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Children’s Hospital Paediatric Diabetes Unit
1st Floor, Children’s Day Hospital
St. James’s University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Name and contact details of Consultant Paediatrician/s
- Dr. Philip Holland: 0113 2064955
- Dr. Fiona Campbell: 0113 2064956
Name and contact details of paediatric diabetes nurses
- Central Diabetes Number: 0113 2064996
- Gwendoline Sewell: 0113 2064996
- Carole Gelder: 0113 2064996
- Carol Bacon: 0113 2064996
- Jane Exall: 0113 2064996
- Caroline Mullier: 0113 2064996
- Julie Cropper: 0113 2064996
- Melani Hill: 0113 2064996
Name & contact details of dietician
- Frances Robson: 0113 3923507 or 0113 2066897
Brief description of unit
The Leeds Children’s Hospital Centre for Children and Young People with Diabetes is currently based at Seacroft Hospital but will move to its own centre within the Leeds Children’s Hospital Outpatient Department at St James’s University Hospital in April 2011.
All the outpatient and administrative work of the Children and Young Peoples Diabetes Team will take place there. The centre will consist of offices for the 2 Consultants along with the 4.2 WTE Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurses, 1 WTE paediatric dietician specialising in diabetes, 0.4 WTE paediatric psychologist and the team’s secretarial and administrative support.
At present 370 children with Type 1, Type 2, MODY and diabetes secondary to other conditions are seen in the diabetes centre. Patients and their families come from Leeds, the Yorkshire Region and Supra-regionally. The patients range in age from a few months old to over 18 years.
Transition clinics for 16 -18 yr olds are held in the Manny Cussins Diabetes Centre at St James’s University Hospital. Facilities are being developed for a ‘Learning Centre’ for Children with Diabetes with regular courses and updates for parents, children and teenagers on different aspects of diabetes management.
The inpatient management of all children with diabetes takes place in a specifically designated ward (Ward 51) at the Leeds Children’s Hospital, LGI. The Children and Young Peoples Diabetes Team have a specific interest in Insulin Pump Therapy, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, MODY and all educational aspects of diabetes management.
