Children's Community Nursing Team

We provide care to children and young people with a short-term health condition, a long-term health condition (such as asthma or diabetes) or who have Special Education Needs or a Disability (SEND).

Known as the Children’s Acute and Ongoing Needs Service, it brings together the following services, known as paediatric specialisms, for further information please click on the links below:

• Children’s Epilepsy Specialist
• Children’s Diabetes Specialist
• Children’s Occupational Therapy
• Child Development Team
• Children's Dietetics 
• Children’s Eye Service
• Children’s Complex/Palliative Care
• Children’s Physiotherapy
• Children’s Respiratory Specialist
• Children’s Speech and Language Therapy
• Community Paediatrics and Child Health
• Children's Neuromuscular Specialists 
• Paediatric Nurse Practitioners

Our 'hub' is at Callaghan House in Heywood. However, we provide care and treatment right across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.

This includes clinics, health centres, children's centres, special schools and nurseries. We also provide care in your own home, where appropriate.

The service is contactable Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 2pm. Referrals can be sent by email at any time.

To support easy access, referrals can be made in to the Children's Community Nursing Team by anyone that works with a child or young person.This includes:

• Any health professional
• Any social care professional
• Any education professional

Children and young people who require support from any of the specialisms can be referred via the Single Point Of Access (SPOA) in the following ways:

Telephone: 01706 676777

Fax: 0207 019 7419

Email: hmrchildrensaons@nca.nhs.uk

Send to: Children's Community Nursing Team, Callaghan House, Cross Street, Heywood OL10 2DY.