Kids Feeding Team Brochure

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We believe in providing patients with the best clinical expertise and treatments for their needs. This commitment to excellence ensures we deliver patients with the best possible results.

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Contents Who we are?

What is our mission?

What services do we provide?

What is a paediatric dietitian?

What is involved in a dietetic nutritional assessment?

Which common conditions can we assist with?

Prices Contact us

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Who we are?

Kids feeding team is a private therapy service that provides babies and children with immediate access to a specialist multidisciplinary feeding team service.

Kids Feeding Team work hard to improve the health of babies and children by providing a patient-centred approach from a passionate, approachable and knowledgeable team.

We strive to increase the accessibility of specialist feeding clinic services by providing parents with immediate access to an evidence-based multidisciplinary team of dietitians, speech therapists, and other health professionals.

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“Our mission is to improve the health of babies and children by providing a patientcentred approach from a passionate, approachable and knowledgeable team.�

What is our mission?

We want to increase the accessibility of specialist feeding clinic services by providing parents with immediate access to an evidence-based multidisciplinary team of dietitians, speech therapists and other health care professions.

We are different from the NHS in that we have the time, staff and resources to ensure your child gets the attention and therapy they need to overcome their individual feeding or weight management problem. Our practitioners are all HCPC registered with experience in both NHS and private sectors.

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What services do we provide?

Assessment We assess children to determine their nutritional needs and provide specialist advice to promote optimal growth and development.

Skype consultation We provide online Skype assessments to children all over the world. If you feel your child would benefit from a nutritional assessment we also offer an online dietetic nutritional assessment via a skype consultation service.

Reports We provide a range of reports such as GP, school, consultant, for nurse or health visitors, case managers, for other services, education and health care.

School services We provide school with access to our multidisciplinary feeding team for assessments, treatment and training.

Therapy • • • • •

Dietetics Speech/ language therapy Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Psychology

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Training We provide a range of training services to a wide range of groups who are seeking nutritional support and education.

Medicolegal Our clinicians have specific medico-legal training.

Treatment • Treatment plan • Education • One to one therapy

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What is a paediatric dietitian?

Paediatric dietitians are qualified health professionals that assess, diagnose and treat diet and nutritional problems specifically in infants, children and adolescents.

What does a dietetic assessment involve?

In the initial dietetic assessment, the dietitian will establish a relationship with you and your child; allowing to explain the problems your child is having with their eating. The assessment will involve:

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Measuring the child's growth Weight Nutritional intake through dietary recalls Fluid balance Regularity of stools Barriers to feeding

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Any previous medical history, growth charts or information you have will come in handy. The root cause may be an individual problem or something that can be worked on as a family.

The dietitian will be able to give practical food, lifestyle and behavioural advice to help improve your child's growth and way of life.

What is involved in a dietetic nutritional assessment?

A nutritional assessment from one of our paediatric dietitians will consist of an “ACDEF� approach, this includes the following:

Anthropometric Clinical/physical Dietary Environmental/behavioural/social Focused service on the patient Whilst carrying out each dietetic assessment we aim to identify and diagnose the nutritionrelated problem of concern, we then develop an individualised treatment and monitoring plan.

All plans are regularly monitored and achieve improved nutritional status and health of each child or young person. We are results-focused and ensure the most up to date evidence-based reference standards are used in achieving the improved nutritional status of each child under our care.

Our dietitians here at Kids Feeding Team use up-to-date evidence to ensure your child gets

the highest quality dietetic care possible.

Additionally, we can offer a multidisciplinary service of health professionals if it is appropriate for your child. Our experienced dietitian can and improve the nutritional status with bespoke feeding plans to assess and treat your child even if they do not meet the criteria to see an NHS dietitian.

Our multidisciplinary team will try to alleviate the physical and nutritional problems so your child can feed to their best ability and withhold any nutritional problems that may occur. If you think your child would benefit from seeing our feeding team dietitian please contact us.

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“Kids Feeding Team is an amazing service with such a wide range of information for parents and people working with children.

Niamh and the rest of the team are highly dedicated and professional. They offer exceptional support and guidance for those who need their help. I couldn’t recommend them enough.”

Fiona

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Which common conditions can we assist with?

A dietitian can treat any child where there are concerns regarding their energy, calorie or nutritional intake. Here are some examples of conditions we can help with:

Allergies and intolerances

Conditions

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Lactose intolerance Cow’s milk protein allergy Egg allergy Coeliac disease Multiple food intolerance / allergy Other intolerance / allergy

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Autistic spectrum disorders Neurological conditions Medical conditions Down syndrome Cerebral palsy Muscular dystrophy Cleft lip / palate ADHD Respiratory conditions Premature babies

Problems and symptoms

Swallowing problems

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• Structural dysphagia • Mechanical dysphagia • Neurological dysphagia

Fussy eating Difficulty weaning Food aversions Drooling Stress around meal times Poor weight gain / failure to thrive Gastroesophageal reflux Sleeping problems Vomiting Discomfort with feeding Constipation Toddler diarrhoea Sensory based feeding difficulties Underweight Overweight Iron deficiency anaemia Tongue tie

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Prices At Kids Feeding Team we provide a range of services to improve the health of babies and children.

Clinic assessment New patient 90 minutes

Clinic consultation Existing patient 60 minutes

£135

£90

Meal plans

£90

Skype assessment/ Consultation

£90

Complex detailed report

£90 per hour

60minutes

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We believe that the best results are obtained when working in partnership with patients, families, and health professionals.

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We believe in always providing theraphy focused on the needs of our patients. We promise your needs will be listened to, and we will answer all questions honestly.

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Contact us 0161 820 8262 www.kidsfeedingteam.co.uk office@kidsfeedingteam.co.uk 6 Minshull Street, Manchester, M1 3ED kidsfeedingteam

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Clinics Manchester Address: 6 Minshull Street, Manchester, M1 3ED

Liverpool Address: David Lloyd Leisure LTD 6 The Aerodrome Speke, Liverpool L24 8QD

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