The Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum has published proposals on how health-related care for children and young people can be improved.
The independent Forum, which was asked by the Secretary of State to help develop a new strategy for improving care for children and young people, identified several themes that it says are key to making the improvements needed:
• putting children, young people and their families at the heart of what happens
• acting early and intervening at the right time• integration and partnership
• safe and sustainable services
• workforce, education and training
• knowledge and evidence
• leadership, accountability and assurance• incentives.
The Forum recommends a number of new outcomes measures and the strengthening of existing indicators and makes specific recommendations for different organisations within the health and care system to ensure the improvements are achieved.
Forum joint chair Christine Lenehan, Director at the Council for Disabled Children, said:
"The Forum is clear that the implementation of these recommendations is key to improving health outcomes for children and young people, which was the ambition of the Secretary of State when he established us to do this work.
"This Report needs to form the basis of a wider children and young people’s health outcomes strategy, which needs to be owned by all organisations in the health system and beyond who have a responsibility for improving the health and wellbeing for this group."The report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum can be accessed here.
For more information including theme reports and factsheets view the full story on the Department of Health website.
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