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Welcome to the Cleft Lip and Palate Service

The Cleft Lip and Palate Service is one of two teams in the Northern and Yorkshire Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service. The Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ service looks after children and adults with a cleft of the lip and/or palate in North, East and West Yorkshire. We are based at Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ Children’s Hospital and most of our patients are children but we also treat adults.

What we do

The service looks after infants, children and adults who were born with a cleft lip and/or a cleft palate, and those with speech difficulties associated with palate function.

Care involves several specialists from different backgrounds who work together as a multi-disciplinary team to plan future treatment, observe a child’s progress and monitor future growth and development. The specialists include a Cleft Surgeon, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Speech and Language Therapists, Clinical Psychologists, Orthodontists and Paediatric Dentists. We are also supported locally by Paediatricians, Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Consultants, Audiologists, and Consultant Geneticists.

At key intervals patients will be seen by the team to talk about progress and treatment. These reviews and therapy are usually undertaken in local clinics, although infants are generally seen at home. If surgery is required, it is usually undertaken at our base at Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ Children’s Hospital, LGI site.

Contact us

For general queries relating to Cleft Lip and Palate Service (including antenatal referrals) 

°Õ±ð±ô:Ìý0113 3925115

For our Speech and Language Therapy Team

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìý[email protected]

For our Clinical Psychologists

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìý[email protected] (email checked periodically – for urgent queries please use the phone number above)

Yorkshire Region Cleft Lip and Palate Service

F Floor
Martin Wing
Ä¢¹½tvÊÓƵ Children’s Hospital (LGI site)
Great George Street
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LS1 3EX

Useful links

Here are some useful resources for further reading and support: 

For new parents / carers:

For new parents/carers wishing to breast milk feed:

Antenatal expressing breast milk: 

Expressing breast milk advice: