TIME AT HOME IS PARTICULARLY PRECIOUS FOR SICK CHILDREN SO THE NEW HOSPITAL WILL HAVE AN ONCOLOGY DAY CARE AREA

摘要

It will not merely be a wholesale transfer of wards from the old sites to the new hospital. Rather, new teams will be built as the services across Oxford combine. Some specialties, such as cardiac, respiratory and oncology care,children so the new hospital will have a specially designed oncology day care area. As the day care team grows, opportunities for nurses to improve the child's experience will also expand. At the moment, for example, waiting times for chemotherapy treatment are causing concern. Children attending for day care chemotherapy generally seem well, so may be considered a low priority by a stretched medical team. Nurse-ied treatment could put an end to much of that waiting time.