Procuring services

Resources and guidance to help ICBs procure high quality and personalised care services for children, young people and families.

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This section:

Highlights useful resources to aid the designing and funding of palliative and end of life care for children and young people.

Sets out some important issues that may impact the extent to which services are high quality and personalised to children, young people and families.

In this section

Principles in procuring services

Designing and funding palliative and end of life care for children and young people.

The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care

Commissioning palliative and end of life care services that meet children and young people’s needs.

Palliative and end of life care statutory guidance for ICBs

Meeting palliative and end of life care duties.

The children and young people’s palliative and end of life care palliative service specification

Delivering specialist level palliative care services from identification of need through to end of life.

NICE guidance

Adhering to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines and quality standards for end of life care for infants, children and young people.

How children and young people’s palliative and end of life care connects with other needs and services

Taking a multidisciplinary approach as and when appropriate. Services which may need to be involved in providing palliative care.

Transitioning into adult services

Taking specific actions to commission smooth age and developmentally appropriate transitions from children and young people's to adult palliative and end of life care services.

Workforce planning

Developing action plans to make sure children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families are well supported by children and young people's palliative and end of life care.

Funding children and young people’s palliative and end of life care

Understanding how the NHS, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations can work together to fund children and young people's palliative and end of life care.