Clinic Contact Details
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and South Bristol Community
Hospital provide an SMS text reminder service 7 days and
then 24 hours ahead of your appointment.
Good communication is vital between families and the
diabetes team. You can really help in the management of your
child's diabetes by doing the following:
Ring your diabetes nurse on a regular basis to
discuss the blood glucose levels. Your nurse can advise on
adjustments to help keep the blood glucose levels under
control.
Attend your hospital appointments (give good
notice if a cancellation has to be made. Please call the children's
hospital on 0117 342 8401). Remember: It is still important to aim
to attend your planned diabetes appointments which should take
place every 3 months i.e. four times a year.
Always perform an HbA1c test one to two weeks
before the appointment to ensure that the result is ready for your
clinic appointment (your nurse will help and advise you with
this).
Keep record of your child's blood glucose levels
and insulin doses for your own reference, and for your hospital
appointments.
We rely on parent/carer or young person staying in
touch, replying to messages and attending appointments as your part
of the partnership in managing diabetes
Out of hours advice is available 5pm to 9am weekday nights and
24 hour cover Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays by phoning Bristol
Royal Hospital for Children on 0117 927 6998 and asking for the
paediatric registrar on-call on bleep 2943.
Please see here for important
documents and leaflets.
