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How can we make a difference to children and young people with palliative care needs?
Andrea CailDirector of Service DevelopmentCHAS
The breadth and depth of palliative care for children
• Chronic conditions• Progressive incurable conditions• Life-threatening illness• Non progressive conditions
ACT /RCPCH 2009 Guide to developing Children’s palliative care services
Palliative / treatment relationshipsACT / RCPCH 2009 (revised)
Palliative Curative
As the illness progresses the emphasis gradually shifts from curative to palliative treatment
Highly technical invasive treatments may be used both to prolong life and improve quality alongside palliative care, each becoming dominant at different stages of the disease
No cure is possible and care is palliative from the time of diagnosis
At first it is not apparent that this will be a terminal illness and palliative care starts suddenly once that realisation dawns
This means
• Cancer remains the second largest cause of death in the 1yr – 19yr age group
• Deaths due to diseases of the - nervous system, - congenital anomalies - respiratory system almost double the percentage of deaths from cancer
• Increasing numbers of children and young people living with significant chronic illness and disability
Waterson, T, Helms, PJ, Ward Platt, M (2006) Paediatrics: A core text on child health.
Challenges
• the focus in paediatrics is still on curing disease (Hutchinson et al 2003)
• aggressive treatment provided in tertiary paediatric centres is at odds with the philosophy of palliative care (Feundnter et al 2001)
• ‘End of life decisions represent complex ethical and moral dilemma’s that are likely to increase with advances in medical technology’
(Samanta and Samanta 2006)
Underlying Principles
• Child and Family first
• Developing sustainable services
• Equity of access and quality
• Improving quality / outcomes
• Workforce planning
How are we makinga difference?
• Investment in managed clinical networks and specialist posts
• Identifying training and education needs
• Collaboration across the UK
• Research / evaluation
• Short Life Working Group – Young People
Care pathway approachACT 2004
SpecialistTertiary services
SpecialistTertiary services
Core ServicesChildren’s Community Nurses
Children’s Hospices, bereavement and sibling support
Core ServicesChildren’s Community Nurses
Children’s Hospices, bereavement and sibling support
Universal ServicesPrimary Healthcare teams, Education
Universal ServicesPrimary Healthcare teams, Education
A keyworker will be responsiblefor ensuring joined up provision
Access to servicesaccording to differentstages in condition
Agreed standards with outcome measures
• Breaking news
• Planning for going home
• Multi-agency assessment of needs
• Multi-agency care plan
• End of Life plan
ACT 2009 A Family Companion
Ongoing challenges
• Data – registers
• Care at the end of life
• Transition
• Working with children, young people and parents
Care at the end of life
• Understand what families want
• Reduce the number of children dying in hospital?
• Improve support at home – care pathway
• Research / studies
• Bereavement support
How can we make a difference?
• ‘When I’m at home I go to bed at 10pm….my disability restricts me ‘cos I’m not able to put myself to bed and get up…there are less restrictions at the airport!’
• ‘In this world, I’ll never forget that – seeing him do what I thought was not possible’
• ‘when you are out in the world you feel like a Martian – no one understands what it feels like to be a bereaved parent, at RH we are all Martians together’