Children's Holistic Integrated Palliative Care Service (CHIPS)

A specialist service providing expert palliative care support for babies, children and young people with serious and life-threatening conditions.

Website: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: CHIPS How w

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Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Support available
  3. Who can access the service
  4. How to access the service

Overview

The service provides expert palliative care support for babies, children and young people with serious and life-threatening conditions and their families.

The service works with the other clinical teams who are caring for them.

This care helps with the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing of the child or young person and their family.

The service makes sure support continues at the end of life.

Support available

The service:

  • supports with planning ahead and making decisions
  • manages complex symptoms
  • supports families whose child is deteriorating and may be reaching the end of their life
  • coordinates and supports end of life care, whether that is at home, hospice or hospital
  • provides bereavement support
  • teaches and trains teams and individuals
  • ongoing palliative care support for families

Who can access the service

Children and young people aged 18 and under, who have a life-threatening condition. 

The service works with young people aged 18 and over as part of a transitional service into adult care. 

How to access the service

A referral can be made by contacting nuth.chipsnurses@nhs.net.

A referral form can be sent out if appropriate. 

The case is then discussed.

If further information is needed, the parent may be asked toattend a virtual meeting to discuss CHIPS' input. An agreement is then made.

In urgent end of life referrals, a phone call can be made for immediate response.