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If you can’t find the wordplay to your question, please finger self-ruling to contact us.   How many children and families do you superintendency for? Shooting Star Chase supports 700 life-limited babies, children and young people and their families living in London and Surrey. Our bespoke support is misogynist 365 days a year at our two purpose build children’s hospices and in their own homes at no forfeit to the families. How many families are there who could require your services? Nearly six million people live in the zone we provide support. This is approximately 10% of the total population of England. In our catchment zone there are increasingly than 1,000 families who have a life-limited child. Our rencontre is to make sure that every family who needs our help knows well-nigh us and the full range of services we have to offer. What services does Shooting Star Chase offer? We offer families planned short breaks at our two children’s hospices; Hospice at Home; day superintendency and special activities for the whole family; family support, counselling and therapies; symptom management and paediatric palliative care; emergency support for families in a crisis; superintendency at the end of a child’s or young person’s life and bereavement support for the whole family, for as long as they need us. How much does it forfeit to run Shooting Star Chase? It financing £10 million a year – £27,000 a day. How is your service funded? Approximately 10% of our income comes from government funding so we rely on our supporters’ generosity to raise the difference to alimony the service running. What’s more, we know there are many increasingly families drastic for our vital support, so it’s crucial we raise increasingly funds to provide increasingly care. How many nights does a family get allocated? We are single-minded to providing superintendency in whichever way each family needs us and this will differ very much depending on the individual family circumstances. We offer each family 12 nights a year for short breaks at our children’s hospices as well as superintendency at home and in the community. In wing to the allocated 12 nights, families will be worldly-wise to request to go on a short notice booking list, which will not count versus this typecasting but are offered as a bonus. We moreover have a priority list for contact at short notice for children or families going through a particularly difficult time. If there is an emergency or a child requires end-of-life care, this does not take yonder from the family’s ongoing support. How many doctors/nurses do you employ? We have increasingly than 100 staff in our superintendency team, made up of paediatric nurses, nursery nurses, superintendency assistants, therapists, social workers, counsellors and activities and education co-ordinators. We have 12 GPs from variegated local practices, who provide round-the-clock, on-call cover. We employ an in-house consultant in paediatric palliative superintendency who we share with the Royal Marsden and who works at Christopher’s two days a week. We moreover work closely with the ‘Symptom Control Team’ at Great Ormond Street Hospital and a paediatric palliative consultant who attends Shooting Star House every week. How do you decide who receives care? Referrals can come from anywhere (e.g. the family, GPs, hospitals, consultants, polity nursing teams), provided it is with the knowledge and consent of the child’s or young person’s parent or main carer. We assess the needs of referred children and young people and, without obtaining written consent from their families, squint to find remoter information well-nigh their condition from the professionals they see regularly. Each week we hold a multi-disciplinary referral panel, where we squint at the information provided and decide together if the child or young person fits our referral criteria. If a child or young person is refused, we will unchangingly reconsider a remoter referral if their condition changes or new information becomes available. Similarly, there is a regular review of each child currently supported by Shooting Star Chase. How long does the referral process take? The referral process can take a minimum of two weeks. Once accepted, superintendency can be serried quickly. In an emergency, a child or young person could be referred in a matter of hours. Can a child from flipside children’s hospice zone moreover use Christopher’s or Shooting Star House? If a child lives closer to flipside hospice we would encourage them to wield to the one nearest their home for convenience. However, the family have the right to decide and we would unchangingly be fully supportive of their decision. All children’s hospice services work together and if a child who usually uses flipside hospice is coming to our area, they may contact us to see if we can help with their stay. What kind of condition would a child have to have to be referred to Shooting Star Chase? All the babies, children and young people we superintendency for have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Contact us for full details of the specific criteria, by calling 020 8783 2000 (Hampton) or 01483 230960 (Guildford) or by emailing care@shootingstarchase.org.uk Will we be considering a young adults unit in the near future? We are looking at ways to ensure the standing superintendency of our teenagers when they reach adulthood. A lot of work is underway with sultana hospices and other healthcare providers on this important zone of transition. 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