Overview
You may have used or been involved with one or more of the following healthcare services
Children and Young People’s Therapy Service (CYPTS)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Paediatric Continence
Children Looked After (see also health and wellbeing in the Somerset Leaving Care Local Offer)
When you reach 14 years old, the service you are involved with will start to talk to you about a ‘transition’ care plan and what transition will mean for you. This will depend on a number of things, such as your current skills, abilities and needs, as well as the nature of your underlying health condition.
Some aspects of your care will not need to transition but some will. We will work with you to start talking with the adult services that may be involved in your care so that when you reach 18 your transition of care will be easier and you will have been involved in each stage of the process.
Kendal, a children’s nurse, talks about the transition paperwork.
You can find out more videos like this, and other information on Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s moving on from children’s health care pages.