A new challenge: paediatric palliative care planning

A new patient class, recently considered for specific health care, includes small patients suffering for incurable pathologies. The suggested health care plan includes home care, interrupted by short admissions in an acute hospital department or in a specialized structure. The plan activation requires an assisatnce network based on the integration between specialized hospital resources and territorial generic medical and social ones. Models and simulations have been utilized to give right network dimensioning, with applications to an Italian region, easily extendable to other situations.