New models of care: the future of child health services. What does this mean for you and your patients?

• Published in: Archives of disease in childhood Vol. 101; no. 12; pp. 1084 - 1086
• Main Authors: Powell, Colin V E, Heinz, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.12.2016
• Subjects: Child Health; Children; Children & youth; Childrens health; Collaboration; Communication; Communication (Thought Transfer); Community Relations; Expertise; Family (Sociological Unit); Health education; Health literacy; Health services; Horizontal integration; Hospitals; Integrated approach; Literacy; Medical research; Mortality; Patients; Physicians; Primary care; Quality; Social Services; Total Quality Management; Undergraduate Study; Young Adults; Young Children; United Kingdom > UK; Health Service; health policy; General Paediatrics; Outcomes research
• ISSN: 0003-9888; 1468-2044; 1468-2044
• DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-310991

[...]there is a mismatch between healthcare delivery and expectations of CYP and their families (CYPF). The Royal College of Child Health (RCPCH) and UK Child Health Research Collaboration (UKCHRC) 6 , National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network Children 7 and the number of networks developing around the UK such as Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland (PERUKI) 8 and General and Adolescent Paediatric Research collaboration of UK and Ireland (GAPRUKI) 9 need a coordinated and integrated approach to evaluate health service delivery. Paediatricians could use current tool kits of quality improvement measures, for example, the RCPCH revised 'Facing the Future standards for acute general paediatric services' and 'Facing the Future together for child health', 10 NHS workforce data, 11 The National Atlas of Variation and the 'Right care' methodology, 12 Quality watch 13 or local clinical audit data.