Table 7 Roles and responsibilities of additional staff to provide choice of end-of-life care at home
Whole time equivalent (WTE) | Role and responsibility |
|---|---|
5.5 WTE | Children’s community nurses, trained in palliative care (assuming 1 week of 24/7 end of life care at home) |
1.0 WTE | Children’s specialist palliative care nurse to provide on call support to the children’s community nurses |
0.2 WTE | Medical Equipment Technician, responsible for equipment safety and calibration; |
0.5 WTE | Clinical Psychologist to provide psychological help for families of children with palliative care needs |
0.1 WTE | IT Support Specialist to develop and maintain the database of children who require on-going and end of life palliative care at home |
0.5 WTE | Administrator to manage database and organise appointments and consultations for children who on-going and end of life palliative care at home; and to organise inventories of equipment |
24/7 | Telephone nurse consultation provided by children’s community nurses and paediatric palliative care nurses |
Travel costs (estimated from the literature) |