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Paediatric Rheumatology

We provide a general and specialist paediatric rheumatology service for the Thames Valley area (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire) and neighbouring counties, including:

• Northamptonshire
• Hampshire
• Wiltshire
• Surrey
• West Sussex.

• management of acute, sub-acute, medium and long-term inflammatory joint disease (juvenile idiopathic arthritis), including joint replacement
• management of chronic musculo-skeletal and soft tissue syndromes, aches and pains in the growing child, (e.g. anterior knee pain, hypermobility, sports injuries)
• management of juvenile dermatomyositis and SLE, childhood vasculitis and other connective tissue diseases (including cytotoxic management)
• management of autoinflammatory conditions (e.g. periodic fevers)
• management of severe acute multi-system disease, including support on intensive care
• transitional care for adolescents with inflammatory diseases
• assessment of localised and generalised chronic pain syndromes
• diagnosis and management of rare syndromes e.g. skeletal dysplasias (development abnormalities) 
• assessment, prevention and management of osteoporosis (thinning of the bones) in children.

• Great Western Hospital, Swindon
• Stoke Mandeville
• Frimley Park
• Wexham Park
• St Richards, Chichester
• Hillingdon

Find us and contact us

Paediatric rheumatology services are based in the Department of Rheumatology at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre |with close ties to the John Radcliffe.

Initial contact with this service should be made via your GP.