Implementation examples / innovations
| Starship Children’s Health in Auckland |
Starship Children’s Health in Auckland provides a diabetes adolescent transition programme and clinics with the following aims:
identifying geographically specific adult services which are able to provide for the needs of young adults with diabetes in Auckland and presenting these options to families/whānau
the provision of a clinic utilising an adolescent consultation model and facilitating the transition process
development of clear, documented plans for transition
good communication between all services providing care for the young person at the time of transition, including the primary care physician and other specialists
the provision of adolescent specific education in a supportive non-threatening environment utilising available speciality services
ensuring that there is no significant gap in care between leaving the paediatric service and entering the adult service and that the young person is not lost to follow-up care
maintaining a database of all adolescents transferring to Adult Diabetes Services and subsequent capture of clinical data for a period of five years post-transition.
The transition programme team consists of endocrinologists, adolescent transition nurses, diabetes nurse specialists, social workers, and a clinical psychologist in addition to ongoing contact with the individual’s own GP. More information can be found at: https://www.starship.org.nz/patients-and-families/youth-transition/diabetes-service/starship-diabetes-adolescent-transition-programme-and-clinics/
and also at: https://www.starship.org.nz/media/248825/transition_starter_pack_2013.pdf
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