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Healthcare transition involves the purposeful and planned process of preparing, empowering and supporting young people with long-term conditions and their families when they are moving from child to adult services. Transition is a series of events that provides the young person with the knowledge and skills they require to be able to function in adult services. Until recently little has been done to address the perceived barriers and challenges involved in transition. In this article, the authors discuss the challenges associated with effective transition and describe their experience of implementing a healthcare transition pathway using a quality improvement model.
Nursing Children and Young People. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.2022.e1439
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to open peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Correspondence Conflict of interestThis work has been funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing in partnership with the named organisations
Morgan S, Gibson F, Aldiss S et al (2022) Effective transition of young people with long-term conditions into adult services. Nursing Children and Young People. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.2022.e1439
Published online: 22 August 2022
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