Whittington Health have consulted on proposals to move the Child Development Centre from St Ann's Hospital and are looking to go ahead with some coproduction work during the summer of 2021.

Currently Whittington Health provide some of our children’s services from St Ann’s Hospital and from Bounds Green Health Centre. Whittington Health are proposing that we move services at the child Development Centre and Paediatric Assessment Unit from St Ann’s Hospital and the Children In Care Service from Bounds Green Health Centre to Tynemouth Road Health Centre.

The majority of our children’s services are delivered in local settings including schools, children’s centres, homes and community venues. This would not change and you should not expect where you have your appointments to change. However, we are proposing that the appointments provided at the Child Development Centre at St Ann’s Hospital move to Tynemouth Road Health Centre.

The move would involve relocating from St Ann’s Hospital the set of clinic rooms used by therapy services and community paediatrics known as the Child Development Centre and the clinic space used by the Children in Care team at Bounds Green Health Centre. In addition the office space for teams from both sites would move.

The Whittington Health consultation ran until 7th April 2021.

We took part in an online event and were pleasantly pleased with the engagement team - and very hopeful that Changing Places are going to be part of the design solution.

What was said at the consultation about the move of the Children's Development Centre from St Ann's Hospital to Tynemouth Road

There were concerns about three things about Tynemouth Road

1. Design of Tynemouth Road
2. Access to Tynemouth Road
3. Parking at Tynemouth Road

What Whittington Health said about those concerns

1. On concerns about the design of Tynemouth Road, Whittington Health agree with respondents that the design of Tynemouth Road must be excellent for those young people and their carers using the service. They plan to create a design group with service users to ensure that the waiting areas, clinic rooms, doors and access are all excellent. Whittington Health commit to installing a ‘changing places’ toilet facility. They also recognise the need for quiet areas that support autistic young people – and commit to exploring what can be done with the green space in Tynemouth Road to make it a positive peaceful environment for young people.
2. When it comes to access to Tynemouth Road, Whittington Health agree that the travel from the public transport access to Tynemouth Road facility itself must be as good as possible and commit to working with the council (and ask the council to help) to ensure that pedestrian crossings and pavements are refurbished to ensure better access. They recognise also that pollution is higher on the route to Tynemouth Road Health Centre than to St Ann’s Hospital (although not in Tynemouth Road itself) and ask the Council to explore opportunities to continually reduce this. Further to this as of October 2021 the ultra-low emission zone will be expanded to the North Circular. With how successful this has been in the inner city it is expected that the expansion of the zone will have considerable impact on air quality.
3. Looking at issues around parking at Tynemouth Road, Whittington Health believe that parking at Tynemouth Road Health Centre will not be as much an issue as suggested by the consultation, because the adult patients currently going to Tynemouth will no longer be there. They will work with the Council (and ask the Council to help) to see what further parking can be secured.

Whittington Health Engagement Contact Details

Contact: engagement.whitthealth@nhs.net

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