Support services and home care team
Support services
We are able to link your child to the appropriate local community support services if and when it is needed. The diagnosis of a child with cancer is a traumatic event and you will have many questions to ask and decisions to make throughout your child’s treatment. The paediatric oncology shared care unit (POSCU) team at Barnet Hospital will quickly recognise that your child, his/her siblings or you as the parent of a sick child need the expert help of local community support services listed below and offer you a link to that support.
You will be able to discuss your needs with your key worker or any of the POSCU core team who will, via the local referral system, be able to organise referral to the Royal Free London.
Support services include:
- psychology/psychiatry (patient and family)
- dietician
- teaching
- chaplaincy
- physiotherapy
- speech and language therapy
- occupational therapy
- social work team
Children’s home care team
The children’s home care team offer specialist nurses who are closely involved with each child’s care and management. Most parents will get to know them very well over the course their child’s of treatment. The home care team are based at Barnet Hospital. They will co-ordinate blood tests and liaise closely with the oncology nurses on Galaxy Ward and the primary treatment centre.
The home care team is available daily from 9am to 5pm. You can call them on: 020 8216 5242
Outside of working hours, please contact 0845 111 4000 and ask for the paediatric on-call registrar, or call Galaxy ward on 020 8216 5193.