Health Provider Organisations North Yorkshire
Due to the geography and scale of North Yorkshire, there are a number of health organisations providing a range of services across the county. Although they are all ‘health providers’, they are separate organisations providing specific services, and they all hold their own health records on a variety of systems.
Each organisation has their own safeguarding team who can be used as a single point of contact if partner agencies need to discuss a child who has accessed services in their organisation or is currently under their care.
Please note that information on finding health services in North Yorkshire can be accessed here:
Finding health services | North Yorkshire Council.
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Healthwatch North Yorkshire
The Healthwatch North Yorkshire website provides a single point of contact for people in North Yorkshire to report their experiences, concerns or their compliments about health and social care.
Independent health complaints advocacy
For help with complaints about health in North Yorkshire, visit the NHS’s help with complaints in North Yorkshire website.
Health Provider Organisations North Yorkshire
– Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)
Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) are part of the NHS and have a legal responsibility to help keep children safe and support their wellbeing. ICB’s are one of the three Statutory Partners alongside the Police and the Local Authority who work together to protect children, make sure services work well together, and learn from serious cases where a child has been seriously harmed or abused.
To do this, ICBs employ specialist health professionals—such as Designated Nurses, Doctors, and Named GPs—who are experts in child safeguarding. These professionals support NHS services (like hospitals, GP surgeries, and mental health services) to ensure they have the right training, policies, and systems in place to recognise and respond to abuse or neglect.
How can professionals contact the ICB North Yorkshire and York Safeguarding Team?
Email hnyicb-ny.safeguarding-adminteam@nhs.net
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Home
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (YSTHFT) provides a range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services across York, North Yorkshire, North East Yorkshire and Ryedale
Urgent Care (Emergency Department) – York and Scarborough Hospitals
Minor Injuries – Bridlington and Selby Hospitals
General Paediatric Services
Specialist Paediatric services and liaison with specialist units out of area
Allied Health Professional services (via Primary Care referral in service)
Specialist community paediatric nursing services
Maternity services are provided trust-wide (York, Scarborough, Malton, Selby, Bridlington and Whitby). Maternity units for births are located at York and Scarborough Hospitals.
Special Care Baby Units, York and Scarborough
Sexual Health, including Young people’s sexual health service
Safeguarding Children Team – Trust-wide service 09.00-16.30 Monday-Friday
Child Protection Medicals
Looked After Child medical examinations (limited criteria)
Contact Information –
Tel: 01904 726647 Email: yhs-tr.sctyorkhospital@nhs.net
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Harrogate District Foundation Trust (HDFT) provides a range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services across North Yorkshire.
Emergency Department & Ripon Minor Injuries Unit
General Paediatric Services
Specialist Paediatric services and liaison with specialist units out of area
Specialist community paediatric nursing services
Maternity services
Special Care Baby Unit
Child Protection Medicals
Looked After Child medical examinations
Contact Information –
Tel: 01423 557539 Email: hdft.acutesafeguardingchildrenteam@nhs.net
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Together we do the amazing
STHFT has two main hospital sites, which are James Cook University Hospital (JCUH) in Middlesbrough and Friarage Hospital, Northallerton (FHN). The Northallerton site offers –
Urgent Treatment Centre
Children’s Day unit and outpatient services.
Midwifery-Led Maternity Service
As there is no Children’s inpatient unit at FHN, children seen at FHN who need hospital admission will be transferred to James Cook University Hospital. James Cook Hospital offers –
Children’s and Young People’s Emergency Department
Urgent Treatment Centre
Children’s inpatient wards
Neonatal Unit
Children’s outpatient services.
Maternity Services
Child Protection Medical Examinations
The Trust provides maternity services for the Hambleton and Richmondshire area in North Yorkshire. As the FHN maternity unit is a small, midwifery-led unit, complicated pregnancies or safeguarding cases are usually transferred to James Cook Hospital for delivery and monitoring.
Contact Information –
Tel: 01642 835601 Email: stees.safeguardingchildren@nhs.net
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services across North Yorkshire. These include –
Urgent Care (Emergency Department and acute assessment unit)
Acute and Community Paediatric Services
Paediatric therapies
Child Development Centre
Paediatric outreach
Paediatric specialist services, i.e. diabetes
Maternity services, including community midwives
Special Care Baby Unit
Child Protection Medicals
Looked After Child medical examinations
Contact Information –
Safeguarding Children’s Team 01535 292389
Safeguarding Maternity 01535 292178
Email anhsft.airedalesafeguarding.children@nhs.net
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV)
TEWV provides specialist mental health assessments and numerous clinical interventions for both children (CAMHS), Adults (AMH) and people with Learning Disabilities (LD). Services are accessed by ‘single point of access teams’, both for adult and CAMHS teams. TEWV also provide both AMH and CAMHS Crisis teams services, which link across Street Triage and other front-facing services. The Trust currently provides CAMHS community and AMH community and inpatient services across the TEWV footprint, which covers York, North Yorkshire, South Tees, North Tees and Durham and Darlington, linking into several acute hospital trusts and local safeguarding children’s partnerships.
If you are aware that there is a CAMHS, AMH or LD worker involved with a family, you should contact them directly for information or to invite them to safeguarding meetings
Contact Information –
The Trust has a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for requests to establish if the Trust are involved with a child or family and to request relevant and proportionate information to inform assessments/ decision making.
The SPOC is available Monday to Friday, 9-5. Tel: 01642 516118
Email contact: TEAWVNT.safeguardingchildren@nhs.net
Growing Healthy 0-19 North Yorkshire | HDFT Children’s Health Service
The role of the Healthy Child Service is to deliver the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 0-19 and their families.
Some of the services are for all children, such as Health Visiting, some are targeted to those most in need, such as vulnerable children, young people and families. All families with a child under 6 have access to the Growing Health Team. The 0-19 Service has a skill mix team made up of Health Visitors, Family Health Nurses, Family Health Practitioners and Family Health Assistants. The Healthy Child programme delivers mandated contacts and offers advice and support. The service delivery model uses in-person contacts, video calls and digital platforms.
The 6-19 Service is a referral in service and consists of a skill mix team who can support with:
Safeguarding meetings and assessments
Review Health Assessments for Children in Care
Emotional resilience consultation, assessments and intervention delivered up to 6 sessions
National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) in local schools, alongside health promotion messages to make every contact count.
There are three levels of service:
Universal – Universal services are essential for keeping children safe, have a focus on prevention and are available to all. This level of service offers support to parents at key times.
Targeted – Targeted services are the delivery of early intervention, evidence-based programmes that are delivered to meet needs in a timely way. This is when specific expert help is needed.
Specialist – Specialist services are for children and young people whose needs cannot be met through universal and targeted provisions. This provides ongoing support in partnership with other services to deal with more complex issues over a period of time.
Contact Information –
Single Point of Contact where Parents, carers and professionals can contact the 0-19 Healthy Child Service directly for information by calling 03003 030 916
Home | Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Provide emergency care via 999 calls and also provide advice via 111 calls
Contact Information –
01924 584375
email: yas.safeguard@nhs.net
Primary Care Networks – NHS North Yorkshire
What services do GP Practices offer?
The majority of children, families and adults are registered with an NHS GP practice
GP practices are the 1st point of contact for many health issues, but increasingly patients can self-refer to services such as mental health and midwifery
Provide universal healthcare services and identify families who need additional support
Support victims and survivors of abuse and neglect
Provide ongoing healthcare to children and parents/carers
May hold important information about the health of children and parents/carers, which is relevant to safeguarding
Contribute to safeguarding children’s assessments and multi-agency meetings, i.e strategies and case conferences
Each GP practice has a safeguarding lead
How can professionals contact GP practices?
Ring the GP practice directly: explain who you are, why you are ringing and that you require information for safeguarding. You may be advised to put your request for information in a secure email to the practice. Within the email, you will need to provide information about the current situation, what the safeguarding concerns are and the current level of risk/harm. You will also need to provide information about which patients you are seeking information about, whether consent from these patients has been obtained or not, or reasons why consent has not been sought. Ref: RCGP Safeguarding toolkit: Who should we share information with, and how? | RCGP Learning
Healthcare in Sexual Assault Referral Centres – Mountain Healthcare
What Services to Mountain Health Care provide?
Mountain Healthcare is dually commissioned by NHS England and Police to provide healthcare services for Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC) contracts. Mountain Healthcare is the largest provider of SARC services in the UK and the provider for the SARC/CSAAS (Child Sexual Abuse Assessment Service) in North Yorkshire and York.
In all cases, regardless of whether the abuse is recent or non-recent or gender identity, consideration must always be given to whether the child or young person requires a sexual abuse medical assessment. As part of the assessment, a child or young person is offered a holistic examination, access to STI and pregnancy testing, as well as referrals to onward support services. All professionals are encouraged to contact Mountain Healthcare, which can be contacted via their 24/7 national call centre for advice by our trained sexual offence examiners. Children and young people will attend the service with a police officer and/or social worker.
Contact Information –
Tele: 0330 223 0099
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