Annex B:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FUNDED PROJECTS IN CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE
CARE— NORTH WEST
| Lead organisation: | Liverpool Crossroads Caring for Carers Ltd
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| Grant scheme name: | Liverpool & South Sefton Children's Palliative Care Partnership.
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £399,944
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The scheme, to be delivered by Liverpool Crossroads Caring for
Carers, Home Based Strand, will take place within the Liverpool
area over three years. Scheme aims to build on existing general
and specialist paediatric community nursing teams to develop palliative
care services. To be achieved by specially trained Care Support
Workers to support and provide respite to children and carers
within the home and out of hour's support and on call advisory
services. The beneficiaries are the parents, siblings and carers.
| Lead organisation: | Eden Valley Primary Care Trust
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| Grant scheme name: | New Opportunities Fund Respite Care Project
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £400,000
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The scheme will run for three years and aims to provide flexible
respite care to children in North Cumbria. The scheme will serve
an estimated 40 families a year with each family being offered
a carer specifically trained to meet the child's needs. Families
will be offered hours on a weekly basis, which can be accumulated,
to enable care to be offered where and when families require it.
It will also provide families with a co-ordinated service across
different statutory and voluntary agencies.
| Lead organisation: | Gaddum Centre
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| Grant scheme name: | Children & Families Bereavement Service (Manchester & Salford Area)
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| Strand: | Childrens Bereavement
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| Grant awarded: | £74,777
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The Gaddum Centre will manage the scheme over three years, to
enhance Gaddum Centre's existing Children & Families Bereavement
Service by providing a holistic bereavement service—including
information, advice, support, practical help and counselling—to
children and families within the Manchester and Salford PCTs,
who are experiencing an extreme grief reaction to the death of
a child due to terminal illness.
| Lead organisation: | Claire House Children's Hospice
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| Grant scheme name: | Specialist Paediatric Palliative Care At Claire House Children's Hospice
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| Strand: | Childrens Hospice
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| Grant awarded: | £650,000
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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To assist nurse staffing in providing hospice care to 100 children
and their families from Cheshire, Merseyside, North Wales and
the Isle of Man and to a further 50 bereaved families. The hospice
offers individual supportive care, specialist symptom control,
respite care, physiotherapy, complementary therapies and family
and sibling support after bereavement.
| Lead organisation: | Derian House Children's Hospice
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| Grant scheme name: | 24 Hour Emergency Palliative Care for Children in the Community
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £380,914
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The scheme will run for three years and provide a 24-hour at home
nursing service for terminally ill children and their families.
Care will be undertaken through the employment of three paediatric
nurses and extend the current palliative care packages provided
by Derian House. A play specialist will provide sensory distraction
for the child and a physiotherapist will provide support, advice
and assistance in alleviating the stress and pain involved in
moving and handling children.
| Lead organisation: | Gaddum Centre
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| Grant scheme name: | Children & Families Bereavement Service (Trafford North, Trafford South & Stockport Area)
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| Strand: | Childrens Bereavement
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| Grant awarded: | £74,777
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The Gaddum Centre will manage the scheme over three years, to
enhance Gaddum Centre's existing Children & Families Bereavement
Service by providing a holistic bereavement service—including
information, advice, support, practical help and counselling—to
children and families within the Trafford North, Trafford South
and Stockport PCTs, who are experiencing an extreme grief reaction
to the death of a child due to terminal illness.
| Lead organisation: | Claire House Children's Hospice
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| Grant scheme name: | Wirral and West Cheshire Home Based Palliative Care for Children
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £400,000
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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Aim is to provide home based palliative care services across Wirral
& West Cheshire for children with life limiting/threatening
conditions by extending existing services in West Cheshire &
creating new services in Wirral. Proposed service will be delivered
through a networked approach consisting of community & specialist
nurses, support carers & partners involvement. Beneficiaries
are the children & their carers.
| Lead organisation: | Derian House Children's Hospice
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| Grant scheme name: | Children's Hospice Provision
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| Strand: | Childrens Hospice
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| Grant awarded: | £649,971
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The grant scheme will be for 36 months and will be delivered at
the hospice in Lancashire. The aims of the service are to provide
holistic, multi-disciplinary care for children with life-limiting
illnesses and their families. It aims to provide a homely environment
where both child and family can achieve the best quality of life
remaining. The hospice supports the family and child through the
experience of pre and post bereavement.
| Lead organisation: | St Helens NHS Primary Care Trust
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| Grant scheme name: | St Helen's, Knowsley, Halton, Warrington Children's Palliative Care Partnership
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £399,973
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The grant scheme, to be delivered by St Helens NHS PCT, home based
strand, will take place in the St Helens and Knowsley, Halton
and Warrington area, over three years. Scheme aims to develop
a co-ordinated home based, family centred, palliative care service
for children with life limiting/threatening conditions. Multi-disciplinary
nursing team will consist of paediatric nurses, social worker
and a nurse consultant. Beneficiaries are the children and their
families/carers.
| Lead organisation: | Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Primary Care Trust
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| Grant scheme name: | Paediatric Palliative Care at Home Team
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £399,176
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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A three year grant scheme aimed at improving home based palliative
care services for children with life limiting conditions. It will
involve the creation of a multi-disciplinary Palliative Care Team
to provide support services to children, their families and carers.
The scheme will specifically target excluded communities, such
as, ethnic minorities. It will benefit children and families in
Wigan Borough, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT will deliver the grant.
| Lead organisation: | Stockport Primary Care Trust
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| Grant scheme name: | Home Based Palliative Care Services for Children in Stockport
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £399,878
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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Children's Palliative care—home-based strand. This 33-month
bid is to establish a new multi-disciplinary team to provide a
round-the-clock co-ordinated care programme for children with
life-limiting conditions and their families in Stockport. Services
will include nursing, care co-ordination, training for carers,
home help, play therapy, nutritional advice, day and night respite
care, psychological support and family support. Stockport PCT
will lead partnership bid of two statutory health bodies and two
charities.
| Lead organisation: | Liverpool Personal Service Society (incorporated)
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| Grant scheme name: | Liverpool and South Sefton Children's Palliative Care Bereavement Team
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| Strand: | Childrens Bereavement
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| Grant awarded: | £74,856
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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The grant scheme will take place within the Liverpool area over
three years. Scheme aims to provide a bereavement team and counselling
support service to assist families who have experienced, or are
likely to experience the death of a child. Activities involve
distinctive palliative care bereavement service for adults and
siblings and high quality counselling and therapeutic services.
The beneficiaries are the parents and siblings.
| Lead organisation: | Zoe's Place Trust
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| Grant scheme name: | Zoe's Place (Liverpool)
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| Strand: | Childrens Hospice
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| Grant awarded: | £273,000
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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36 months core funding for Zoe's Place (Liverpool) baby hospice
for 0-5 year olds in the UK. Funding is to sustain and improve
its care, especially by securing the best possible staff. It will
benefit up to 250 0-5 year olds, siblings and carers per annum.
It will be delivered by the registered charity Zoe's Place Trust.
| Lead organisation: | Central Manchester PCT
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| Grant scheme name: | Manchester Children's Community and Home Support Team
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| Strand: | Childrens Homebased
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| Grant awarded: | £393,162
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| Grant Scheme Description: |
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Central Manchester PCT (CMPCT) in partnership with Francis
House Children's Hospice to provide a 24 hour, home based nursing
support service within a multi-disciplinary framework. Estimated
beneficiaries are 382.
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