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Appendix 6: Quality standard checklistsChapter 2 Statutory servicesHealth servicesB7. Strategic planning of transition services in health 1Information Date to be What further work is needed?completed by Who is the lead person?Address professional and managerial attitudes.Recognise that transition is a process, not an event.Recognise the differing perspectives of paediatricians,physicians and GPs, and other health professionals.Establish dialogue between clinicians, management andcommissioners and other agencies.Develop an appropriate environment for adolescents(adapting existing facilities as appropriate).Consult with users – e.g. young people and theirparents.Agree a policy on the timing of transition. The exacttime of transfer should depend on an individual’sreadiness and needs.Set up a preparation period and education programmefor the young person and parent. Identify the necessaryskill-set to enable the young person to access and makefull use of adult services.Plan a coordinated transfer process; this depends onthe model of care used locally.Identify interested and capable adult services.Identify a coordinator – someone to coordinate carewhen young person receives input from differentconsultant teams and health professionals.Consider information transfer.Set up monitoring and fail-safe mechanisms to ensurethat young people are attending the adult clinic.Ensure primary care involvement.Negotiate administrative support.Appendix 61 From: Transition:getting it right for youngpeople. Improving thetransition of youngpeople with long termconditions fromchildren’s to adult healthservices, 2006, DH andDfES126
The following points have been taken from a number of papers which havebeen written by health professionals keen to see improved support fordisabled young people who are making the transition from child to adulthealth services. 2B8.Information Date to be What further work is needed?completed by Who is the lead person?Is there a written policy?Is there a preparation period and education programmewith an individualised approach that addressespsychosocial and educational/vocational needs, providesopportunities for adolescents to express opinions andmake informed decisions, and gives them the optionof being seen by professionals without their parents?Is there the involvement of a team of health professionalsas required by the young person’s identified needs?Is there a coordinated transition process with a namedcoordinator and continuity in health personnel whenpossible?Is there an interested and capable adult clinical service?Administrative support in place?Primary health care and social care involvement?B9. Health services at transition – local area checklistInformation Date to be What further work is needed?completed by Who is the lead person?Who represents primary care services on the CYPSPB?Who is representing health services in developing thelocal multi-agency transition protocol?Who is leading from health services in drawing up themulti-agency transition map for provision of local services?How are all health staff working with individual disabledyoung people informed of arrangements for transitionand when they should start?Appendix 6: Quality standard checklistsChapter 2 Statutory services2 From: Viner R M, ‘Transition from paediatric to adultcare. Bridging the gaps or passing the buck?’, Arch DisChild 1999, 81, pp 271-75.; Shaw K L, Southwood T R,McDonagh J E, ‘Transitional care for adolescents withjuvenile idiopathic arthritis: results of a Delphi Study’,Rheumatology 2004, 43,pp 1000–06; McDonagh J E,‘Growing up and moving on. Transition from paediatric toadult care’, Paediatric Transplantation 2005Appendix 6127
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ContentsIntroduction 1Chapter 1 The
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