Your Child’s Clinic Visit

We welcome children and their parents to the children’s outpatient departments at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital , The Portland Hospital and One Hatfield Hospitals.

What to expect from your child’s first clinic visit

• We will try and make the first meeting as comfortable as experience as possible for your child.

• During the appointment, we will try and confirm the diagnosis and propose a treatment plan.

• A thorough assessment will be undertaken including a detailed history of the problem and examination of the affected joint or limb.

• After this, we may recommend further evaluation in the form of different types of investigations. This may include blood tests taken by specialist paediatric phlebotomists, or imaging such as X-rays, CT or MRI Scans

• The appointment will last around 30 minutes but may be slightly longer if an X-ray is performed.

• More detailed scans will require a separate appointment due to the length of time these can take (30mins-1 hour).

• Results are relayed as soon as they are available or during a second follow up appointment.