Children’s Asthma Team

Who we are

We are a team of people who work with other services, such as the School Nursing Service, health visitors and children’s community nurses, to support children and young people with an identified respiratory condition.

What we do

We work closely with hospital paediatricians to identify children and young people who need support and we work with our partners to care for them.

We provide education and information about respiratory conditions and current treatments to make sure staff work together to meet each child’s needs and our aim it to improve the child’s quality of life as well as helping to control their condition.

We work across east Kent in homes, schools, nurseries, colleges, clinics and hospitals and we run community clinics in:

• Aylesham Health Centre
• Broadstairs Health Centre
• Canterbury Health Centre
• Deal Community Clinic
• Dover Health Centre
• Folkestone Health Centre
• St Stephen’s Health Centre
• Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Herne Bay
• Whitstable Health Centre

Medway

In Medway, the team provides community-based care to support recovery, monitor symptoms, offer asthma education and advice, review asthma action plans and help families manage their child's condition confidently at home.

The service may include:

• follow-up visits at home or in community settings after hospital discharge
• monitoring of respiratory symptoms and recovery
• support with asthma management, including inhaler technique and trigger avoidance
• review of personalised asthma action plans
• liaison with GP practices and specialist services where needed.

How do you use this service?

You can get in touch using the information here or you can be referred by a GP or healthcare professional.

Medway referrals

The Medway and Swale Children’s Community Asthma Service can see any child or young person aged one to 17 years who requires an asthma or wheeze assessment.

Parents and carers can self-refer their child or young person to the service using the attached form. Referrals are also accepted from clinicians in the Medway Hospital A&E department and from Medway Hospital paediatricians.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept referrals from GPs.