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This Pathway helps children and young people in Devon (excluding Plymouth) with a wide range of complex health conditions that require expert and specific nursing advice and support.

Difficulties may include: 

• complex breathing/airway difficulties including long term ventilation
• neurodegenerative disability 
• enteral feeding 
• complex continence problems requiring clinical interventions
• oxygen dependence
• complex wound care
• palliative care and symptom management at end of life
• complex phlebotomy and administration of injectable medication
• long term complex conditions such as cardiac, renal or liver disease, including a child or young person dependent on technology to meet their health needs
• caregivers requiring clinical training to meet an individual child or young person’s needs

CFHD specialists you might receive care from in this Pathway

• Community Children’s Nurses, including those based in a number of special schools and those with skills and knowledge in palliative care 
• Clinical Support Workers

Community Children’s Nursing (CCN)- Referral Form

CCN helps children and young people in Devon (excluding Plymouth) with a wide range of complex health conditions that require expert and specific nursing advice and support.

Please find below the CCN referral form. You can find all other referral forms here.

Find out more about Community Children’s Nursing (CCN)

To read more about who the CCN team are, what they do and how they can help, click here: