The Children's in-patient unit and Children’s Emergency Department are located at University Hospital. We provide for a full range of emergency services and planned admissions. There are 52 infant and children's beds including adolescent facilities and up to 6 High Dependency beds. Children requiring Intensive Care are stabilised jointly by Paediatricians and Intensivists prior to retrieval to a PICU. There are approximately 30,000 attendances at the Children’s Emergency Department resulting in 4000 admissions.
There is a Hospital School, a full time Play leader and a full range of specialist support staff including Dietitians, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language therapists, Social work and a Health Visitor Liaison. The Unit is staffed to all current recommendations, with more than 90% of the trained staff being Registered Sick Children's Nurses.
A highly successful Hospital at Home service has been established in Rugby. Many children who might otherwise have either been admitted to hospital, or had longer length of stay, are now being nursed in their local community.
A team of Paediatric consultants and specialist nurses provide the following services.
Paediatric diabetes
If you are a young person with diabetes, or the parent of a child or young person with diabetes under the care of the paediatric diabetes team at Coventry or Rugby, and you need urgent advice out of hours, please contact the Children’s Emergency Department (CED) on 024 7696 6932 or 024 7696 6934. Clinic
The UHCW Paediatric Diabetes team
What happens on clinic days
Annual Review
Your Spiritual and Religious Care
Transition – Adolescent Information
Wearing Identification
Carbohydrate counting
Diabetes and Careers
Driving
Exams and stress
Exercise
Hypoglycaemia
Leaving home
Puberty
Moving from Children’s Diabetes Clinic to Transition Clinic
Complications
Illness and Diabetes
Common Problems
Complications of Diabetes
Foot care
School
How I look after my Diabetes at School
Management of Diabetes
Ketone testing
Adjusting Insulin Doses - Three Times a Day Injection Regimen
Adjusting Insulin Doses - Basal Bolus Regimen
Adjusting insulin on a twice daily regimen
Blood Glucose Testing
Information for children, young people and their families about exercise, type 1 diabetes and insulin pump therapy
Insulin Injections
HbA1c
High HbA1c
Illness Management on Insulin Pump Therapy
Nutrition
Christmas with Diabetes
Baking ideas
Snacks
Free foods
Living with Diabetes
Disposal of sharps
Holidays
Diabetes UK and other Information about managing your Diabetes
Disability Living Allowance
Lifestyle
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Please ensure you have a current blood test request form, if not please contact your hospital consultant or GP and they will post one to you. Unfortunately, your blood test will need to be rescheduled if you do not have a blood test request form when you come to a Blood Test clinic.
All blood tests are by appointment, please book an appointment using the Book Online button below.
If you have an appointment and cannot attend, please remember to cancel or reschedule your appointment so that someone else can use the time slot that you no longer need.
If you cannot book an appointment online, family and friends may be able to help – you can book appointments for more than one person from one account. Booking online is the quickest way to make an appointment.
If this is not possible, there is a telephone line for those who cannot book online. Please call 02476 153546 between 8am and 1pm Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays.