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Important Local NHS Health Services - Transition Guide

These are some of the important local NHS Health Services in Sheffield.  Click on the drop downs for more information.

If your needs are health related, then you could be suitable for continuing healthcare for adults when you turn 18.

If you already get support from children’s continuing care

Your assessing nurse in that team will work with you and your parent/carer.  This is to make sure that your package helps with the move to either:

  • social care support,
  • into continuing healthcare for adults
  • back into the care of your GP.

If you have children’s continuing care it does not mean that you will automatically get continuing healthcare for adults.

If you are not known to children’s continuing care

If you think you may need continuing healthcare for adults, a checklist should be completed when you are 17 years old. The Checklist can be completed by health and social care workers. This could include:

  • registered nurses employed by the NHS
  • GPs,
  • other clinicians or
  • local authority staff such as social workers, care managers or social care assistants.

This should send this to NHS Continuing Health Care Team (adults).  This is to check if you are suitable for NHS continuing healthcare for adults.

If you have a learning disability, you may be able to get support from the Community Learning Disability Team.  This is once you are 18. You can ask them for support by contacting the team either on:

The CLDT service offers specialist health care assessment and interventions.  An intervention is something put in place to help you.  These include:

  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • occupational therapy
  • physiotherapy
  • speech and language therapy
  • community nurses

You might be invited to attend a transition clinic with the Community Learning Disability Team.  This is to see what help is available.

If you have autism or ADHD and no related learning disabilities, you can be referred to SAANS. 

This is for assessment, support and counselling over the age of 16.

Useful contacts

Sheffield Children’s Hospital

They have information about transition.

Click on the logo to find out more.

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The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)

They offer advice, help and information on health issues.  They keep this private so no-one else needs to know if you don't want them to.  They help patients, their families and carers. 

They are open Monday - Friday 8am-4pm.

Click on the logo to find out more.

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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (Adults)

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals have a transition service. The service have children’s nurse specialists in an adult setting. They organise the transition for complex health needs.

Sheffield Teaching Hospital also has a Learning Disability Service.

Please contact the Transitions Team for more information.

Find out more by clicking on the logo.

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In this section

  1. Introduction to the Transition Guide
  2. Preparing for Adulthood
  3. Sheffield's Local Offer
  4. What happens and when - Early Years (age 0-4)
  5. What happens and when - Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 (age 5-7)
  6. What happens and when - Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 (age 7-11)
  7. What happens and when - Year 7 and Year 8 (age 11-13)
  8. What happens and when - Year 9 (age 13-14)
  9. What happens and when - Year 10 (age 14-15)
  10. What happens and when - Year 11 (Age 15-16)
  11. What happens and when - Year 12 (age 16-17)
  12. What happens and when - Years 13 and 14 (Age 17-19)
  13. What happens and when - Age 19-25
  14. Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans - Transition Guide
  15. Education, Employment and Training - GCSEs and Help in Exams - Transition Guide
  16. Post 16 Education - Transition Guide
  17. A Guide to Qualifications at 16+ - Transition Guide
  18. Apprenticeships and Supported Internships - Transition Guide
  19. Things to do when not in college - Transition Guide
  20. University and Higher Education - Transition Guide
  21. Careers Advice - Transition Guide
  22. 1) Help with finding and keeping a job - Transition Guide
  23. 2) Help with finding and keeping a job - Transition Guide
  24. 3) Help with finding and keeping a job - Transition Guide
  25. Leisure - Transition Guide
  26. SEN Transport - Transition Guide
  27. Independent Travel Training
  28. Other Travel Support and useful Apps - Transition Guide
  29. Social Care Services - Transition Guide
  30. Moving from Children’s to Adult Social Care Services - Transition Guide
  31. Paying for adult social care - Transition Guide
  32. Getting a carer’s assessment for your parent/carer - Transition Guide
  33. Short Break Services - Transition Guide
  34. Direct payments for social care services - Transition Guide
  35. Housing - Transition Guide
  36. Decision making and mental capacity - Transition Guide
  37. Transitioning from Children’s Health to Adult Health Services - Transition Guide
  38. Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability - Transition Guide
  39. Important Local NHS Health Services - Transition Guide
  40. Mental Health Services - Transition Guide
  41. 1) Finance and Benefits: Disability Living Allowance, Direct Payments and Appointeeship - Transition Guide
  42. 2) Finance and Benefits: Universal Credit - Transition Guide
  43. 3) Finance and Benefits: 16 to 19 Bursary Fund - Transition Guide
  44. 4) Finance and Benefits: Banking, Wills and Trusts and Child Benefit - Transition Guide
  45. Further help and support - Transition guide