Charity helps children’s transition to adult services
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Charity helps children’s transition to adult services

Anne Horner Health writer

Specialist nurses funded by the Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity are helping to care for children with long-term conditions and smooth their transition to adult services

The fact that aspiring actor Benjamin Tshibangu, 23, is beginning to work in his dream job shows how far he has come with the help of a specialist transition nurse, having been diagnosed with sickle cell disease shortly after birth.

Nursing Children and Young People. 31, 5, 14-15. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.31.5.14.s12

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