Childrens Palliative and Complex Care Team (Community Nursing)
The service cares for Children with Palliative and or Complex long term health care conditions in the community.
Children, young people and their families have a named nurse who will do nursing care, teach families and carers to do care, help families manage the condition and its symptoms by liasing and working with Doctors, therapists, social care and schools.
For children and young people with further needs there is a clinical psychologist and a small respite team.
Who to contact
- Contact Name
- Catherine Smith
- Contact Position
- Team Leader
- Telephone
- 01782 306031 01782 306031
- catherine.smith@ssotp.nhs.uk
Where to go
- Name
- Patient homes
Availability
- Referral required
- Yes
- Referral Details
Via other healthcare professional, the child or young adult needs to have complex health care needs with a distinct nursing need such as nasogastric feeding.