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Read the full storyManaging Childrens' Asthma at Home - Information for Parents & Carers
As a GP trainee working with Connecting Care for Children, I’ve spoken to young people with asthma and their families about their experiences with healthcare. From these conversations, I noticed…
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Read the full storyLessons learnt (so far) from establishing models of integrated clinical care for children and young people
We are always learning. In healthcare, we learn most from children and families. CC4C also learns a great deal from colleagues working across the UK and beyond. Many like-minded individuals meet…
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Read the full storyChild Health Hub ICS Value Analysis
How do we approach value and the economics of the Child Health Hub model of care? With the help Economics By Design, we analysed the value of the Child Health Hub. The impact of the Hub extends to…
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Read the full storyPoor transition is contributing to a decline in young people’s health How can we help?
What is transition? Transition of care is when young people move from paediatric to adult healthcare. This is often a daunting period for young people as they try to navigate NHS systems for the…
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Read the full storyGood news report from the NHS Confederation's Primary Care Conference
Good news report from the NHS Confederation's Primary Care Conference. Mando Watson joined Matthew Taylor, the Confederation's chief executive, Michael Smith, Matthew Taylor, Dr Sy Ganesaratnam for…
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Read the full storyThe importance of having CAMHS professionals in a GP MDT
Over the last few years the success of the GP Child hubs has grown and grown. The concept is simple; to have a group of GP practices come together once a month with a general paediatrician for an…
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Read the full storyImproving integrated care for kids in north west London: CC4C’s first away day
At the first Connecting Care for Children (CC4C) away day over 25 individuals came together to brainstorm the future of this innovative ever-advancing project. The announcement of the NHS 10-year…
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Read the full storyLearning from young people
Quality Improvement – Learning from Young People Adolescence is a difficult time in many people’s lives and is only made harder for young people with a chronic health condition. One particular…
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Read the full storyEntering the asthma big room
My time working on the general paediatric wards as a second year doctor is nearly up. I’ve had a fantastic few months working with wonderful people and I have learnt a lot about looking after unwell…
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Read the full storyChild health GP Hubs, a newcomers perspective
I began my four-month rotation in ‘integrated paediatrics’ with very little idea what to expect. My clinical experience as a doctor thus far had consisted solely of busy, ward-based hospital roles,…
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Read the full storyBe a part of the Revolution
How bringing our data together is going to galvanise integrated and proactive patient care. WSIC – Whole Systems Integrated Care Dashboards Life is full of key-point moments that change our approach…
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Read the full storyHow can behavioural insights support families to choose the best option for their unwell child?
Pressures on emergency departments (EDs) are again dominating headlines, but what about children? Children make up almost a quarter of total ED attendances, and in fact their impact on current…
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Read the full storyProcess mapping – a recipe for medical quality improvement
I’m a second year paediatric trainee. I usually spend my time on the wards with acutely unwell children. The meetings I normally attend involve discussing children’s acute admission and their…
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Read the full storyTelemedicine
There is huge pressure on medicine, we all know that. Increasing numbers of elderly patients, patients with complex medical needs, and a dwindling number of doctors as many set sail for sunnier…
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Read the full storyMeasuring value and real impact in child health
As a sentimentalist, I believe that my present will be continuously shaped by my past. That would then explain why, after so many years of research, I tend to define success by the number of…
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Read the full storyIntegrated paediatrics and Connecting Care for Children
Integrated paediatrics was the last four-month rotation of my two-year junior doctor’s foundation training programme. Before this I had busy, clinical, service provision roles in A&E, medicine and…
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Read the full storyComplex systems also come in children’s sizes
Throughout my master's degree in ‘One Health, Infectious Disease’, I became fascinated by how subtle changes can have drastic impact on the natural equilibrium that protects us, the animals, and…
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Read the full storyAn idea that could smash the clinical silos
By placing junior doctors in the most innovating organisations we could create a more open-minded culture, writes Nishma Manek “What might have struck a non-partisan onlooker was the extraordinary…
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Read the full storyPATCH: Foundation doctors meet a new paediatric outreach team
What is PATCH? Providing assessment and treatment for children at home (PATCH) is a new service based at the emergency department at St Mary’s Hospital, funded by Imperial Health Charity. The team…
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Read the full storyManaging menstrual problems in adolescents with neurodisability
To adolescents with neurodisability and their caregivers, the onset of puberty and menstruation can pose a significant challenge. How do you manage the practicalities of managing periods? How do you…
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Read the full storyQualityWatch: Closer to critical
'We can only be sure to improve what we can actually measure' wrote Lord Darzi in High Quality Care for All. I was reminded of it this week when QualityWatch hosted a conference to coincide with…
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Read the full storySex can be hard for adolescents to talk about, but can support groups help?
Our brief was to help create a group for young people, particularly girls, where they felt safe and comfortable to talk about sex
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Read the full storyThat time of year again
National flu vaccination programme for children Winter has arrived and with it comes the yearly vaccination programme against the influenza virus. This year the programme has been extended to…
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Read the full storyLooking at child health in Japan
For two weeks in June I participated in the Royal College of General Practitioners medical exchange to Japan to experience its healthcare services
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Read the full storyDid it work the way we hoped it would?
When designing a new service, it is crucial that we fully evaluate it so we can understand if it produced the outcomes desired, and to what extent. We carried out a mixed methods service evaluation…
