Our children’s sleep services are provided at Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital. Both are recognised as world-leading hospitals – Evelina London for children’s care and Royal Brompton for respiratory medicine. Together, we have one of the most comprehensive children’s sleep services in the UK.
We care for children, infants, and babies with a range of sleep problems, looking after 3,000 children each year. We provide all types of sleep studies for children, including overnight and complex sleep studies.
Experts in children's sleep medicine
We have dedicated children’s sleep medicine facilities at Snow Leopard ward at Evelina London and Sir Robert Finch children’s sleep and ventilation unit at Royal Brompton.
We can provide advanced hospital-based sleep studies, as well as home sleep studies. This allows us to evaluate all types of sleep disorders, including complex sleep and seizure disorders.
Our children’s sleep experts work closely with our children’s respiratory medicine specialists at both hospitals to provide additional support to those that need long-term ventilation. With long-term ventilation units located at both hospitals, we can provide end-to-end care for our patients.
Sleep conditions we treat
We evaluate, diagnose and treat all types of children’s sleep conditions, including:
- circadian rhythm disorders (disruption of the body clock)
- idiopathic hypersomnia (long-term daytime sleepiness)
- insomnia (difficulty getting to and staying asleep)
- narcolepsy (a long-term brain condition that can prevent you from choosing when to sleep)
- nocturnal hypoventilation (breathing that is too low or shallow during sleep)
- parasomnias (sleep walking, talking, nightmares)
- REM sleep behaviour disorder (nightmares and acting out dreams)
- restless leg syndrome (an overwhelming urge to move your legs)
- sleep-disordered
- breathing, including sleep apnoea (disrupted breathing during sleep)
- troublesome snoring
When it’s time for a child to leave our wards, our team will help to make sure their sleep routine can be put in place at home.
With our expertise in adult sleep medicine, we also ensure young patients with long-term sleep conditions can move seamlessly on to adult care.
Locations
Our children's sleep service is available at the following locations:
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Our children’s sleep specialists work in multidisciplinary teams to provide access to the full breadth of clinical services ensuring high quality expertise and specialist care.