About Us
What is the MCN?
The East of England Children’s Palliative Care Managed Clinical Network (MCN) provides coordinated clinical leadership and promotes effective collaboration across organisational and professional boundaries.
We aim to ensure the best use of resources, facilities, knowledge and experience to improve the quality and provide equitable palliative care and outcomes for children, young people and families, and facilitate more effective commissioning of children’s palliative care services
What is the Focus?
The MCN links organisations and promotes partnership working which support families throughout their experience of caring for children and young people determined as having one of four categories of life limiting and life threatening conditions (ACT RCPCH 1997) and for children who have not responded to maximal intensive therapy (PICU or NICU) for a variety of conditions.
Where does the Network cover?
Currently the Network extends across the East of England including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, North/West Essex, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
What are the Network’s functions?
The work of the MCN sets the expected standard for children’s palliative care, with the Clinical Steering Group providing clinical leadership for the East of England region by:
Promoting the Network to provide peer support, shared learning and development of consistent services not limited by organisational or geographical boundaries
Delivering greater consistency in practice by strengthening the timely planning and co-ordination of care during weekday working hours and by providing specialist advice and support overnight, at weekends and bank holidays
Developing capacity in the children’s workforce through the Palliative Care Education and Training Programme
Development, dissemination and audit of well-defined care protocols and guidance.
Get In Touch
- 01223815107
- MCNAdmin@each.org.uk
- East of England Children’s Palliative Care Managed Clinical Network, c/o East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, Church Lane, Milton, CB24 6AB
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