Paediatric Epilepsy Service

The team is located at the Nottingham Children’s Hospital at the Queen’s Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospital’s NHS Trust.

The aim of the service is to:

• Provide high quality specialist diagnostic and treatment services for children and young people with epilepsies age 19 and under.
• Act as a focus for audit/research in the paediatric epilepsies.

Paediatric Epilepsy

Children and Young People with epilepsies are managed by hospital General Paediatricians and Paediatric Neurologists.
Various outpatient epilepsy clinics are offered; please note the frequency of these in brackets.

General Paediatric Epilepsy Clinics:

Monday afternoon:
Paediatric Epilepsy Clinic: Dr S Smith, Consultant Paediatrician and Ann Brown, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Epilepsies (4-6 times a year)

Wednesday morning:
Paediatric Epilepsy Clinic: Dr D Thomas, Consultant Paediatrician and Ann Brown, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Epilepsies (3rd week of the month)

Thursday afternoon:
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Epilepsies clinic (weekly)

Friday afternoon:
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Epilepsies clinic (weekly)

Consultant Paediatric Neurology Epilepsy Clinics:

For children under the care of the Paediatric Neurologists (Drs Chow & Whitehouse) please refer to the Paediatric Neurology website for further details regarding the team and clinics (link to be provided please contact Ann Brown for further information in the meantime).

Key Contact Details:

Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Epilepsies:
Ann Brown
0115 924 9924 Extn: 62329