Developmental Paediatrics

Your guide to appointments

You will be notified of your appointment via letter and SMS text message.

Appointments take place at either Lowe House or the Millennium centre, please carefully check your appointment notification to ensure you come to the correct clinic address.

• Lowe House Health Centre, 103 Crab Street, St. Helens WA10 2DJ
• Millennium Centre, Corporation Street, St. Helens WA10 1HJ

Please arrive 15 minutes before your appointment time.

• What happens when you arrive at clinic?

  Lowe House:

  Please go upstairs to the first floor waiting area for clinic suite one, you will pass the reception on your way to the waiting area

  The clinician will come to the waiting area to call you to your appointment 

  Millennium Centre:

  Please go to the upstairs waiting area for clinic suite one 

  The clinician will come to the waiting area to call you to your appointment.

  Non-attendance:

  Please note that non-attendance without prior cancellation may result in discharge from the service

  Cancellation:

  Please give as much prior notice of cancellation as you can as this may enable us to book another patient in. 

  Repeated consecutive cancellations will result in discharge from the service

  Use the main service contact number or email to cancel your appointment: 01744 457215 

• New patient appointments

  In a new patient appointment, the clinician will take the medical history of yourself and your biological family. 

  This appointment will include a conversation with the doctor, and if they feel it is needed, recording your height, weight and taking your blood pressure. 

• Review appointments

  In review appointments the clinician will be updating on how your current treatment is progressing. If you are on medication this will include monitoring, it’s success. Onward referrals might be made, and changes made to your plan of care. 

  If it is felt that the service cannot provide any meaningful intervention, or that your care is complete you may be discharged from the service. 

  This appointment will include a conversation with the doctor or a nurse specialist, and if they feel it is needed, recording your height, weight and taking your blood pressure. 

• New into care appointments

  In this appointment your clinician will ask you questions about your wellbeing and will see if there are any referrals needed for service to support your health. 

  This appointment will include a conversation with the doctor, and if they feel it is needed, recording your height, weight and taking your blood pressure. 

  You will be discharged from the service when this appointment is completed.

• QB test appointments

  In this appointment you will undertake a test, the results of which will contribute to your ADHD assessment. It might be that you already have an ADHD diagnosis, and this test is being used to help with the prescribing of medication. 

  This test is taken on a computer and requires no physical examination. 

  Your parent/carer will remain in the waiting room whilst you complete this test on the computer. 

• NDP assessments

  This appointment will be undertaken with a clinician to help provide one stage of assessment for the NDP. If no other concerns are identified that could be helped by the service (for example ADHD) you will be discharged following this appointment. 

  This appointment will include a conversation with the doctor.

• Sleep Assessment

  Sleep assessments are key to establishing what has and has not worked well and which new strategies can be used to help you sleep. In this appointment you may be asked to keep sleep diaries and make adjustments to your routine to support your sleep, before sleep medication can be considered.

• Transition clinics

  As this is a paediatric service young people are discharged from the service when they reach 18 unless they fall under SEND guidance. In your last appointment before your 18th birthday your clinician will establish the type of care you need, and which service can best provide this for you. You will then be transferred to the appropriate adult service to continue your treatment, this may be your GP or the adult ADHD service.