Our support is for NHS boards currently setting up or improving neonatal and paediatric hospital at home services.
The current focus is growing capacity of neonatal and paediatric hospital at home services to contribute towards the Scottish Government aim to reach 2,000 hospital at home and Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) beds by December 2026.
We do this by working with services to:
- Set-up appropriate referral pathways
- Develop effective clinical and non-clinical processes
- Enable workforce planning
- Support senior leadership and good governance, and
- Share evidence and experience.
Programme support
We provide participating services with:
- Peer to peer learning for example through cross-site visits, learning sessions and case studies
- Access to information and resources
- Improvement and implementation guidance and advice including regular coaching calls and access to other specialist advice
- Support with data, measurement and evidencing impact
- Development of a set of guiding principles
Participating services
We are currently working with:
- NHS Fife
- NHS Forth Valley
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
- NHS Lanarkshire
- NHS Tayside
We are working with the current cohort of services until March 2027.
Hospital at home community
We support the existing network of paediatric hospital at home practitioners and facilitate peer to peer support and sharing of learning. This includes:
- an active MS Teams channel
- regular learning sessions
- national events, and
- a developing library of practical resources such as pathways and job descriptions.
You can join the community channel and gain access to the practical resources by emailing the team at
You can join the community channel and gain access to the practical resources by emailing the team at his.communitycare@nhs.scot