Referral

Guideline for the referral to secondary care children services: urgent and routine.

Psychosocial needs assessment

Guideline for the Implementing Psychosocial Needs Assessment for Children and Adolescents with Cancer.

Diagnosis and staging protocol

This document describes the diagnosis and staging process required during the diagnosis of cancer in children.

Chemotherapy regimens list

Please find attached a list of chemotherapy regimens approved by Birmingham children's hospital.

Regimens for outside of the appoved list - children's cancers

Please find attached a Birmingham children's hospital policy for prescribing regimes outside of the approved list.  This is only ever done under the guidance of a Birmingham children's hospital pediatrician, and using the attached guidance.

Follow-up

This document describes the long term follow-up for cancer in children

Supportive care

Cytotoxic therapy

Low risk community chemotherapy

Palliative and radical radiotherapy guidelines

Please find attached the university hospital Birmingham protocol for paediatric radiotherapy. 

Bone tumours

Clinical management protocol - bone tumours.

Central nervous system

Clinical management protocol - central nervous system.

Hepatic tumours

Clinical management protocol - hepatic tumours.

Leukaemias

Clinical management protocol - leukaemias.

Lymphoma and reticuloendothelial malignancies

Clinical management protocol - lymphoma and reticuloendothelial malignancies.

Rare tumours of childhood

Clinical management protocol - rare tumours of childhood.

Renal tumours

Clinical management protocol - renal tumours.

Retinoblastoma

Clinical management protocol - retinoblastoma.

Soft tissue sarcoma

Clinical management protocol - soft tissue sarcoma.

Sympathetic nervous system tumours

Clinical management protocol - sympathetic nervous system tumours.

Common complications

Please fiind attached a booklet containing guidance re all the common complications other than the four listed separately below.

Nausea and vomiting

The attached document was approved by Birmingham Children's Hospital and adopted by the West Midlands Children's Cancer Network Coordinating Group.

Central venous access devices and complications

The attached document was approved by Birmingham Children's Hospital and adopted by the West Midlands Children's Cancer Network Coordinating Group. 

Blood administration protocol

The attached document was approved by Birmingham Children's Hospital and adopted by the West Midlands Children's Cancer Network Coordinating Group.

Extravasation

The attached document was approved by Birmingham Children's Hospital and adopted by the West Midlands Children's Cancer Network Coordinating Group.