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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (SHFT) Health Visiting Service has launched ChatHealth 0-5, a text messaging service to support parents, carers and families of under 5’s in Hampshire. The aim is to improve access to health information and support for families caring for babies and young children.
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A new service for 0-19 year olds in Cheshire West and Chester has been shortlisted in this year’s Childcare Works Award.
The Starting Well 0-19 Service, which is provided by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) and commissioned by Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC), launched in January 2018 and brings together Health and Education into one integrated service. The Starting Well teams run from Children’s Centres and consist of Early Years Workers, My Well-being Advisors and other CWP Starting Well specialisms including: Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, and Public Health Nursing (including immunisations and vaccinations) all working to support children, young people and families to maximise their life chances and support their health and wellbeing.
The Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2017 is now available online, bringing the costs of a wide range of health and social care services for both adults and children. Thanks to funding from the Department for Education, once again this year, we have been able to add new services to chapter 6, which focuses mainly on children’s social care. Here you will find unit costs for children’s care homes, adoption, end-of-life care at home, parenting programmes and many more.
Child health is suffering at the hands of a disjointed approach from central Government is the warning from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) as it publishes its “State of Child Health: One year on” scorecard today.
In complex health systems, the highest quality of care occurs when different elements of the system are joined up in a transparent way in order to meet patients’ needs. In a primary-care focused system such as in the UK, the majority of care for children and young people (CYP) is provided in primary care, while most specialist expertise resides in secondary care organisations. Pathways for both acute care and long-term conditions must therefore necessarily cross institutional borders, often multiple times. This can be a source of adverse outcomes and poor patient experience. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Parents of children in need of treatment for minor illnesses can now book an appointment directly with a dedicated Paediatric Nurse Practitioner.
The role is part of Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Children’s Acute and Ongoing Needs Service (CAONS) which is provided by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. It was newly established in September 2016.
The service aims to provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and an appropriate treatment plan, and to reduce pressure on GPs, urgent care and hospital services.
As of April 1 2017, Lancashire Care will work in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Council and other voluntary sector providers to deliver the new, fully integrated, Healthy Child Programme.
Following a competitive tendering process, the new programme will build on previous achievements in the borough by bringing together health visiting, school nursing, specialist infant feeding and other third sector services to provide a consolidated public health service for children aged 0-19 years.
This quality standard covers all young people (aged up to 25) using children’s health and social care services who are due to make the transition to adults’ services. It includes young people:
with mental health problems
with disabilities
with long-term, life-limiting or complex needs
in secure settings
under the care of local authorities.
As a health visiting team in an area with high levels of deprivation we wanted to help our families become more active but realised there could also be positive knock on effects with improving attachment, parenting and reducing social isolation.
The project was also part of our Trust’s commitment to launching more Building Community Capacity projects within health visiting.
Walk, Talk and Grow BD4 was the result, although one little boy renamed it “walking club”.