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Transitioning from paediatric to adult healthcare with a life limiting condition; does this lead to increased healthcare usage, cost and worse patient outcomes?

This three year NIHR-funded fellowship awarded to Stuart Jarvis aims to explore changes in emergency hospital care and GP consultations for young people with life limiting conditions when they transition from child to adult care.

Children with life limiting conditions are cared for by specialist paediatric services, but from 16 years of age they transition to adult services. Concerns about this transition have been recognised by the Chief Medical Officer and the Care Quality Commission, but there is a lack of research on the transition.

The research will include a review of existing evidence on the extent of and reasons for emergency hospital care during and after transition and will also determine the size of any change in emergency hospital care and numbers of GP consultations across the transition, the factors that may influence this change and the costs of care pre and post-transition.

Public Health and Society Research in the Department of Health Sciences