The Integrated Children’s and Adolescent Service has been established to provide complementary care alongside orthodox treatments. The clinic sees children up to 18 years old with a wide variety of conditions.
Our clinics offer a patient-centred holistic approach, safely integrating complementary medicine appropriately in a variety of conditions, including dietary and lifestyle advice and symptom management.
Our team is led by a consultant paediatrician. All of our doctors have trained in complementary therapies.
The team works closely with the UCLH paediatric and adolescent teams and other professionals elsewhere who are involved in your child’s care. All the treatments discussed by the children’s clinic team can be used safely alongside conventional treatments. We can also offer advice to parents and young people on both conventional and complementary treatments.
The service is for treatment of children and young people with established conditions and diagnosis. All relevant investigations such as blood tests or scans and procedures should have already been completed and managed before referral.
Children with chronic, complex, or serious medical conditions need to be under active care and management by a lead consultant paediatrician or lead consultant elsewhere in addition to this service.
- Chronic pain conditions or syndromes
- Chronic tension-type headache and migraine
- Rheumatic conditions, such as juvenile arthritis
- Skin diseases, such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, urticaria, vitiligo, molluscum and warts
- Recurrent infections, such as tonsillitis, ear infection (otitis), bronchitis and herpes
- Allergic disorders, such as hay fever, asthma and multiple food intolerances
- Bowel disorders, such as gastro-oesophageal reflux, constipation, abdominal migraine, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease
- Managing stress and anxiety
- Sleep problems
- Functional developmental and learning problems including autism spectrum disorders
- Behavioural concerns and disorders including hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
The team also provides advice on complementary treatments for symptoms associated with childhood cancers.
Patient contact
Service management
Loretta Chinwokwu
Address
Integrated Medicine Children and Adolescent Service
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing
Children and Young People’s Unit
235 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BU
GP contact
Referral
Other referral information
Referrals are only accepted by e-referral from GPs or by tertiary referral by letter from authorised healthcare professionals.
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UCLH service name |
E-referral specialty |
Clinic type |
|---|---|---|
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Integrated Children and Adolescent Service |
Complementary Medicine |
General Medicine |
Referral address
Integrated Children and Adolescent Service
Royal London Hospital Integrated Medicine
60 Great Ormond Street
London WC1N 3HR
All our Integrated Children and Adolescent Clinics are held at the Children and Young People’s Unit which is located at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing on the main UCLH hospital site.
What happens after my initial appointment?
If you are accepted for therapy, you will be contacted by one of our administrators to schedule either your group or individual therapy sessions.
Because we receive a large number of referrals, it is possible that you may have to wait before your therapy starts.
What if I cannot attend my initial appointment?
If you are unable to attend your appointment, please let us know at least 48 hours beforehand so that we can reschedule and offer your appointment to someone else. If you do not attend your appointment without telling us, we may refer you back to your GP.
If your appointment is more than 24 hours away, please change or cancel it by using the online form below or calling us on 020 3456 7890.
If your appointment is within the next 24 hrs please call us on 020 3456 7890.
If you have any non-urgent queries regarding your appointment or our services, please email us at uclh.
