The community children's nursing service (CCN's) consists of lead nurse, senior staff nurses and children's support. We provide a comprehensive nursing service to children and young people (CYP) who have nursing needs which cannot be met by universal services. This may include children and young people with acute short-term conditions, those with disabilities and complex needs, and children and young people with life-limiting/life-threatening illnesses including those requiring palliative and end of life care.
We provide care to:
- Children aged 0-18 years
- Children who are residents in the West Northamptonshire area.
- Children who are registered with a GP in the West Northamptonshire area, who have a GP who is part of the Nene Commissioning Group.
Children who meet the criteria would include those who are:
- Children who have palliative/end of life needs.
- Enterally fed
- Have Oxygen requirement
- Require suction
- Have a Tracheostomy
- Require saturation monitoring
- Requiring nebulised therapy
- Require post-operative wound care/catheter removal
- On going management of ACE procedure
- Long term home ventilation
- Maintenance of Central Venous Access Devices
- Have a pressure ulcer
(Please note the above are examples and not a definitive list)
Referrals are made to our service via the referral management centre this can be accesses at: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/cyprmc
Contact details
Telephone: 01604 523896
The community children's nursing service is available from Monday-Friday (excluding bank holidays) 08.00 - 18.00