Information on what the CCN Team provide
We provide advice, support and direct nursing care to infants, children and young people from birth to 18 years, who need nursing care and are under the care of a Consultant Paediatrician (19 years for those with complex needs).
The Community Children’s Nursing Service aims to:
- keep your child/young person out of hospital where possible.
- help with early discharge from hospital, as soon as it is safe to do so and provide adequate support to continue recovery/care at home for your child.
- help with nursing care for your child/young person at their home or another familiar place e.g. school, relatives.
- give the child’s family or carers support, equipment and information in order to help the child/young person gain as much independence as possible.
We do this by working in partnership with other health care workers: Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists etc, schools and other services involved with your child.
If your child/young person has a nursing need and their GP is within Lincolnshire they will be eligible for visits from us, the Community Nursing Team.
Conditions that require a community nurse include:
- Being dependent on technology such as home ventilation or oxygen therapy.
- Complex medication regimes (IV, Subcut, peripheral, CVL).
- Complex feeding regimes e.g. gastrostomy, jejunostomy, parenteral Nutrition & Nasal Gastric tubes.
- End of Life Care, including 24-hour support.
- Acute/chronic or complex needs requiring any nursing procedure which can be undertaken safely at home.
- Dressings for wounds and scalds.
- Taking blood and other specimens.
How to contact the teams
All team’s working hours are:
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm (excluding Bank Holidays)
GRANTHAM TEAM
Office: 01476 464457
E-Mail: [email protected]
South Team (Grantham)
Kingfisher Unit, Grantham Hospital
LINCOLN TEAM
Office 01522 573784
E-Mail: [email protected]
North Team (Lincoln)
Beech House, Lincoln
BOSTON TEAM
Office 01205 445702
Email: [email protected]
East Coast Team (Boston)
Maternity Block, Pilgrim Hospital
Consent
For us to care for your child we will need a referral to our service.
Please be assured that all information is treated confidentially and records which we hold will be retained as per United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust policies and comply with GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
We will ask for your consent if we wish to share your information with other professionals and you have the right to refuse. We may need to override confidentiality and the need for consent, to prevent significant harm to others or safeguarding issues.
Our vision is to “work together to provide sustainable high-quality patient-centred care for the people of Lincolnshire”.