All Children's services articles – Page 3
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News
Battle for cancer centre turns in favour of challenger
A controversial transfer of children’s cancer services has moved a step closer after an NHS England assessment process supported the move.
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News
Urgent action ordered at maternity scandal trust
The trust at the centre of a maternity scandal has been ordered to report on urgent improvements in services for women and babies, amid ‘significant concerns’ about the risk of harm.
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Comment
The ‘dire state’ of children’s mental health
Saffron Cordery explains how the current plans for children and young people’s mental health must go further if we are to meet rising demand for children’s services
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Comment
A bleak picture for babies and young children
Institute of Health Visiting executive director Alison Morton warns national policy has developed a “baby blind spot” amid the NHS crisis, with many young children missing out on government’s promise of the “best start in life”, and calls for a shift towards prevention and early intervention
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HSJ Partners
What is the impact of RSV on the health system and patients, and how could it be reduced?
Each winter for many years, respiratory syncytial virus has done to paediatric services what covid has done to adult ones. So why does it often remain a little-known condition, and how could its impact be reduced? Claire Read reports.
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HSJ Partners
An opportunity to cut waiting times and deliver better outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services
Richard Comerford discusses how partnerships offers trusts an opportunity to cut waiting times and deliver better outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Surviving winter
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Awards 2022: Provider Collaboration of the Year
WINNER: North Central and East London Provider Collaborative Commissioning and Providing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Services
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News
Sharp rise in babies missing out on timely health checks
The proportion of newborn babies receiving a timely health visitor check-in has fallen sharply, with one in five missing out in the most recent statistics available.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Improving Care for Children and Young People Initiative of the Year
WINNER Northern Care Alliance FT: Paediatric Trans-Anal Irrigation Training in the Child’s Home Instead of in a Hospital Setting
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Mental Health Initiative of the Year
WINNER Sussex Health and Care Partnership: Operation Warren - Responding to Children and Young People’s Mental Health
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Expert Briefing
The uphill battle for mental health in schools
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, this week by senior content editor Hayley Kirton — contact me in confidence.
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News
Covid redeployment ‘wrong’ and ‘will never be repeated’
Redeployment of community staff to other services – meaning visits for babies and parents were missed – was the “wrong decision” and would “never be repeated”, a provider has stated.
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HSJ Partners
Remote monitoring solution for newborns with congenital heart defects
Alder Hey Innovation, based at Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust, is to develop a cardiac home monitoring programme in partnership with Objectivity Ltd.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Council/NHS rows flare
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
NHS ‘not doing a very good job’ on children’s mental health
The NHS’s approach to tackling children’s mental health is ‘threatening to overwhelm the social care system’, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.
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News
Intensive care units for children not meeting standards, says NHSE report
Three intensive care units for children are not meeting standards for co-located services, a national report has found.
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News
Sharp rise in child development issues in wake of covid
Families are being ‘left without the support they need’, as overstretched services struggle to handle ‘a significant and growing minority’ of children not developing as expected.
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Comment
Urgent focus needed on backlogs in children and young people’s services
We need a coordinated effort, funding and support to help community providers address backlogs of care across community services for children and young people, write Daniel Reynolds and Miriam Deakin
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Comment
‘Get your team back to the frontline’: an open letter to the new NHSE chair
In an open letter to NHS England chair Richard Meddings, Sir Sam Everington outlines tips to improve the performance of the NHS