Medway Community Healthcare (MCH) provides a wide range of high quality community health services for Medway residents; from health visitors and district nurses to speech and language therapists and out of hours urgent care.
The children’s learning disability nursing service is a small team of learning disability nurses who specialise in supporting children and their families either in small groups or 1:1.
The key areas we cover are:
All referrals need to come from professionals, if you think your child would benefit from seeing a nurse, please speak to your Health Visitor, school nurse, therapist or social worker.
ERIC
Asthma UK
All referral forms should be completed and forwarded to medch.childrenscommunity@nhs.net
If you are a parent seeking advice please contact the duty desk on 0300 123 3444.
Alternatively please speak to your health visitor, GP or Nursery/School who may consider a referral to our service.
Following referral you will be invited to attend either a parent education training session or an assessment screen.
Phone lines are open between 8am – 5pm Monday – Friday