To access care from our Children’s Hospice at Home team, patients should satisfy the following criteria:
- The child/young person is aged 0-17 years at time of first referral
- The young person is aged between 17-19 years with a prognosis that
- death is expected before their 19th birthday
- The child/young person has a life limiting/life threatening condition which may require palliative care as defined by the eligibility criteria set out below
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Group 1
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Life threatening conditions for which curative treatment may fail e.g. cancer, irreversible organ failure
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Group 2
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Conditions where premature death is anticipated but intensive treatment may prolong life e.g. complicated cystic fibrosis, HIV
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Group 3
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Progressive conditions without curative treatment options where treatment is exclusively palliative e.g. Battens disease, mucopolysaccharidoses
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Group 4
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Conditions causing severe neurological disability leading to susceptibility of health complications and likelihood of premature death e.g. severe cerebral palsy, multiple disabilities following brain or spinal cord insult
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(ACT & RCPCH 2003)
Children in Group 4 may require further assessment.