• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Accessibility
  • Terms and Settings
  • Site Map
NHS Tees Valley CCG

NHS Tees Valley CCG

Tees Valley Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Logo
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Our Work
  • Documents
  • Get Involved
  • Events
  • News
  • Contact Us

Message to parents from GPs: don’t delay treatment if your child is unwell

20th April 2020

Doctors are urging parents to contact their GP Practice if their child is unwell amid concerns that parents are delaying seeking medical attention during the Coronavirus lockdown for fear of contracting the virus or not wanting to bother the NHS during this time.

While Coronavirus is unlikely to make children unwell, other illnesses, if symptoms are ignored may make them very unwell.

Dr Janet Walker, medical director, NHS Tees Valley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said ‘GP practices are open and if your child is unwell don’t delay, call your practice or NHS 111, please don’t ignore symptoms and hope they will go away. While it is vitally important to follow Government advice and stay at home it is also vital to seek medical help if your child is unwell.

‘Although we are asking you to NOT go into your local practice before first contacting them, many practices are providing consultations by telephone and video and if required, a face-to-face appointment will be agreed, Remember, GPs, hospitals and NHS111 all remain open and are still providing the same safe care that they have always done.’

Health officials are reminding parents that they should contact their GP surgery or NHS 111 if their child is finding it hard to breath, is dehydrated, has extreme shivering, persistent high temperature that does not come down with paracetamol, persistent vomiting, blood in their poo or any limb injury causing reduced movement, persistent pain or head injury causing persistent crying or drowsiness or are worried about their child.

Parents should take their child to A&E or call 999 if they become pale, mottled or feel abnormally cold to the touch, have difficulty breathing, are agitated or unresponsive, are going blue round the lips, having a fit or seizure, have a rash that does not disappear with pressure (the ‘glass test’) or has testicular pain, especially in teenage boys.

In line with current guidance patients experiencing Coronavirus symptoms should seek help and advice using NHS111online services at www.111.nhs.uk/covid-19 or by calling NHS111.

Primary Sidebar

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Search The Site

Find events, news, documents and more.

Hartfields Public Engagement

Hartfields Public Engagement

© 2022 - NHS Tees Valley CCG

Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimise our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}