{"id":36,"date":"2022-11-11T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:29:51","slug":"palliative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/services\/palliative\/","title":{"rendered":"Palliative and End of Life care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Who we are<\/h2>\n<p>We are a team of community based children\u2019s nurses, nurse associates, health care assistants, play specialist and administrators lead by a Palliative and Complex Care Practitioner working alongside the child and families&#8217; wider health, social and voluntary support network.<\/p>\n<h2>Our work<\/h2>\n<p>We offer holistic care to babies, children and young people on a palliative care pathway, by working\u00a0 alongside other health and social care professionals and voluntary organisations. We do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holistically assess the needs of children and families and, together with parents to produce a joint plan of care.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce or prevent hospital attendances or admissions by providing a skilled paediatric nursing service.<\/li>\n<li>Enable and empower parents to look after their child in the most suitable environment with our support.<\/li>\n<li>Act as family advocates and network on behalf of children and families.<\/li>\n<li>Work in partnership with families to ensure a co-ordinated approach to family-centred care throughout their child&#8217;s life.<\/li>\n<li>Deliver 24\/7 on-call advice, upon referral, for families of children at the end of life.<\/li>\n<li>Provide signposting to bereavement support, if this is wished by a family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The care given will be guided by the wishes of the individual child\/young person and their family, whether in the children\u2019s hospice, acute setting or in the community.<\/p>\n<h2>Availability<\/h2>\n<p>The team operate 7 days a week from 8.00am to 8.00pm.<\/p>\n<p>There is an 24\/7 on call service for children at the end of their life.<\/p>\n<p>A decision when the 24\/7 on call service is made between the family and health professionals. If access\u00a0 to the on call service is agreed, the on call service contact details are shared with a family.<\/p>\n<h2>Referrals<\/h2>\n<p>Referrals are accepted from GPs, hospital consultants and other healthcare professionals; please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/referrals\/\">referrals page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Useful links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helenanddouglas.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen &amp; Douglas House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainbowtrust.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainbow Trust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Together for Short Lives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we are We are a team of community based children\u2019s nurses, nurse associates, health care assistants, play specialist and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"parent":8,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/205"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ccn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}