Guidance: Transition from children’s to adult services (NICE)
This guideline covers the period before, during and after a young person moves from children’s to adults’ services. It aims to help young people and their carers have a better experience of transition by improving the way it’s planned and carried out. It covers both health and social care.
The Care Quality Commission uses NICE guidelines as evidence to inform the inspection process.
Recommendations
This guideline includes recommendations on:
- overarching principles for good transition
- planning transition
- support before and after transfer
- the supporting infrastructure for transition
Who is it for?
- Health and social care providers
- Health and social care practitioners in children’s and adult health, mental health and social care services
- Other practitioners working with young people who use health and social care services, for example those working in education and employment agencies
- Young people using heath or social care services who may need support from adults’ services in the future, and their parents or carers
Commissioners should ensure that any service specifications take into account the recommendations in this guideline and associated quality standard (publication expected December 2016).
Click here for more: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng43
