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Assessing transition services

Our partner organisation, the Association for Children's Palliative Care (ACT), has developed a self-assessment tool. It is designed help agencies assess services provided to young adults who are moving on to adult palliative care services along a "transition care pathway".

Self assment tool

'Transition Care Pathways Standards: Service Self Assessment Tool' is based on the 'ACT Transition Care Pathway: A Framework for the Development of Integrated Multi-Agency Care Pathways for Young People with Life-threatening and Life-limiting Conditions'.

 

It aims to identify the aspects of best practice within a local area. The stages of the audit are:

  1. assess service provision against standards and goals

  2. produce and implement an action plan aimed at achieving best practice

  3. review achievements towards best practice

  4. disseminate improvements and/or review the action plan.

 

This audit provides a process of considering current practice and enables the identification of good practice, and those areas of practice which need further development. The Goals and Standards included in the tool correlate to those in ACT’s Transition Care Pathway. 

 

Further information

You can find out how to order a hard copy of the tool, or download it as a PDF, on ACT's website.