All Children's services articles – Page 5
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HSJ Local‘Insufficiently curious’ leaders ‘tolerated’ safety failures
Leaders at a mental health trust tolerated high levels of safety incidents and accepted verbal assurance with ‘insufficient professional curiosity’, a critical report has found.
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NewsChildren getting ‘conveyor belt’ care due to waiting list pressure
The pressure to tackle long waiting lists in children’s community services is impacting care quality, clinical leaders have warned.
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NewsBattle 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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NewsUrgent 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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CommentThe ‘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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CommentA 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 PartnersWhat 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 PartnersAn 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 BriefingLondon Eye: Surviving winter
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ 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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NewsSharp 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 AwardsHSJ 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 AwardsHSJ 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 BriefingThe 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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NewsCovid 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 PartnersRemote 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 BriefingThe 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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NewsNHS ‘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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NewsIntensive 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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NewsSharp 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.