Your doctor can help you find the right people to help you.
Below are some people that can help.
Specialist children’s services
Specialist children’s services include:
Occupational therapy
Children's occupational therapy - Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - occupational therapy
Paediatric consultants
Children are referred to the Department by their GP, healthcare professionals in other departments, from the ward as inpatients, or from the community teams.
HDFT - Paediatric Outpatients Department - Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Scarborough - York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Outpatients
Physiotherapy
HDFT - Children's Physiotherapy 2023 - Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Scarborough - York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Physiotherapy
Speech and language therapy
HDFT - Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy - Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical psychology
Scarborough- York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Clinical Psychologist
Residents in the Harrogate area
People in the Harrogate area can find out information on these specialist services on the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust website.
Residents in the York and Scarborough area
People in the York and Scarborough area can find out information on these specialist services on the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust website.
Residents in the Craven area
People in Craven can find out about Children's therapy services, including occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy, on the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust children's therapies website.
This also includes information about neurodevelopmental assessment for children under 7 years. For enquires call 01535 292821 or email airedale.childrenstherapy@nhs.net.
Information about other children's services at Airedale, including acute and community paediatricians is available on the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust children's services website.
For more information about the Trust and the other specialist services they provide, visit the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust website.
Healthy child team
This is a 0 – 19 North Yorkshire service and provided by Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust:
It includes:
- health visitors (0-5 only)
- school nursing services
- immunisation teams
Specialist equipment
If you need special equipment in school to help you learn, speak to your school or nursery or a health care professional (such as a doctor, paediatrician or therapist) to help you get what you need.
If you have autism or are neurodivergent
If you think your child has traits relating to autism, ADHD or is showing signs of a specific learning disability such as dyspraxia or dyslexia, please speak to your school, nursery or health care professional who can help refer you to the right support.
This is a really helpful website you can visit to show you where you can get some help - autism help and information in North Yorkshire
There is also the North Yorkshire Connect website which is full of helpful ideas.
Keyworker Service
NHS keyworker support will be given to children and young people on the Dynamic Support Register in North Yorkshire and York.
Keyworkers will make sure that you get the right support at the right time.
A keyworker will work with you to make sure you are fully involved in your plans, feel listened to and have the support you need.
For more information, please visit the NHS Humber Teaching website or the NHS England Children and young people keyworkers website.