Childrens Epilepsy Service

What we do

The Children's Epilepsy Service is a team of Doctors and Specialist Nurses who guide, support and advice children/ young people and their families within Blackburn and Darwen and East Lancashire.

We have close links with colleagues in the Adult Epilepsy Service which is based at Royal Preston Hospital and have established a nurse-led child/young person /adult Transition Clinic on the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital site.

The service supports a childhood/young people population across, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley with an age range of 0-19. We currently have over 630 registered patients within our service.  

We are also part of the  North West Children and Young People’s Epilepsy Interest Group which comprises Consultant Paediatricians and Children’s Epilepsy Specialist Nurses who meet four times a year to discuss and keep ourselves updated on current NICE Guidelines.

Aims

The main focus of the team is to provide high quality, seamless care for the child/ young person and their  family across Blackburn and Darwen, East and Pennine Lancashire.

Objectives

• To deliver high-quality epilepsy outpatient care including diagnosis, initial support  and on-going care for children/ young people and their families
• Support children/young people in the community, home and nursery and school settings
• To provide treatment and medication following diagnosis
• To provide personalised individual Health care Plans for the family for use in Nursery, school and respite care.

Where to find us

The team is based within Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and we run weekly clinics on a Monday alternating mornings and afternoons across Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Teaching Hospital sites.

The three specialist nurses are based at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital site and can be contacted between 8am - 6pm, Monday to Friday.

Contact Us

Tel: 01254 733384