The Complex Care Team is an integral element of the Community Nursing Team and provides respite to children aged 0-18 years who meet the criteria for Children’s Continuing Care in the home setting.
The service is available to children who are resident in the Cambridge City, South & East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon areas. Referrals are accepted from a range of health and social care professionals.
The benefits of the service can include:
- to empower children and their families to live as full a life as possible enabling them to cope both physically and emotionally
- maximising treatment and inclusion of children with complex health needs both in the social and educational settings
- helping children with chronic conditions and their families become experts in the management of their care
- supporting families to provide a quality death for their child in the place of their choice
- minimising and averting crises and maintaining the child’s emotional and social wellbeing
- through respite enabling other members of the family to take part in activities that may not be suitable for the child with medical needs
- avoiding hospital admission wherever possible and facilitating early hospital discharge.
Delivering excellence in Children and Young People’s Services:
a partnership between Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust