Noah's Ark Children's Hospice provides holistic clinical and non-clinical support to babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and their families.

Services include:

• end-of-life-care
• nursing and specialist care (short breaks)
• creative therapies
• specialist play
• volunteer home support
• family activities (children's groups, family events, parent peer-support groups, sibling groups)
• transition support
• perinatal support
• care after death
• bereavement services. 

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

Noah's Ark Children's Hospice accepts referrals of children in NCL between the ages of 0-19 based on the following criteria, in line with guidelines used by all children's hospices:

• Group One
  • Life-threatening conditions for which curative treatment may fail
• Group Two
  • Conditions where premature death is anticipated but intensive treatment may prolong life (e.g. complicated cystic fibrosis, HIV)
• Group Three
  • Progressive conditions without curative treatment options where treatment is exclusively palliative (e.g. Battens disease, mucopolysaccharidoses)
• Group Four
  • Conditions causing severe neurological disability leading to susceptibility of health complications and likelihood of premature death (e.g. severe cerebral palsy, multiple disabilities following brain or spinal cord injury).

How to Refer

Locations

The Ark