The allergy service at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital conducts clinics throughout the week and offers a comprehensive service for children with all kinds of allergies, including foods, dusts, pets and pollens, drug allergy, anaesthetic allergies and venom allergy, including immunotherapy.  The allergy team (specialist doctors and nurses and our dietitian) also care for children with related problems of urticaria, angioedema and anaphylaxis.

ROUTINE ALLERGY MANAGEMENT

• skin prick testing
• blood (IgE and component) testing
• dietitian support
• adrenaline auto-injector training
• food challenges
• allergy management planning for home and schools

SPECIALIST EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

• insect venom allergy evaluation
• antibiotic and other drug challenges
• joint ENT, respiratory, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, haematology, anesthetics clinics
• tertiary multi-disciplinary paediatric eczema clinics
• day case and inpatient evaluation and management of complex allergies
• oral, sublingual immunotherapy, subcutaneous immunotherapy
• biologics and stem cell transplantation

CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND TRIALS

• translational research in conjunction with Academic Institutions
• clinical trials: peanut immunotherapy, vaccines & allergy, Dupilumab for severe eczema

Dr Peter Arkwright
Dr Rachel England
Dr Stephen Hughes
Dr John Molloy
Dr Vibha Sharma

Sister Samantha Farrer
Sister Michelle Herring
Sister Kerry O’Neill
Sister Paula Shevlin
Sister Rachel Yeomans

Francesca Townsend

Mrs Andrea Edwards
Mrs June Elliott