Children and young people represent a third of our country and their health and wellbeing will determine the future health of our nation.
Starting well
The NHS Long Term Plan saw a large focus on ensuring that there is a strong start in life for children and young people.
Key challenges will be transforming maternity services to improve outcomes, reducing stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal death, and brain injury. Also ensuring that focus is put on children's health and wellbeing transforming services to reduce health inequalities.
This includes redesigning care to ensure it is person-centred and that there is a focus on improving transitions, with care models in place to provide support from preconception to adulthood.
Key challenges will be transforming maternity services to improve outcomes, reducing stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal death, and brain injury. Also ensuring that focus is put on children's health and wellbeing transforming services to reduce health inequalities.
This includes redesigning care to ensure it is person-centred and that there is a focus on improving transitions, with care models in place to provide support from preconception to adulthood.
Transforming Devon's Local Maternity System
To better understand their current situation and transform future services, Devon STP asked SCW to support the development of their Local Maternity System plan.
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The significance of the first women’s health strategy
'Healthy women are the cornerstone of healthy societies'. For me, this quote by the World Bank (2017) sums up the intent behind the publication this week of the first Women’s Health Strategy for Engla...
Supporting the mental health needs of the under fives
By early 2020 NHSE/I recognised a comprehensive 0-25 mental health offer was needed if it was to meet the expectations of the LTP. We worked alongside NHSE/I to deliver a national under-fives mental h...
Improving immunisation uptake in the Thames Valley
Reducing the significant variation in immunisation uptake between GP practices across the Thames Valley was the challenge facing our Improving Immunisation Uptake Team.
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Child Health Information Services (CHIS)
Child Health Information Services (CHIS) is an NHS-commissioned service that is responsible for collating data from healthcare professionals for children aged 0-19 in a specified area, into a single child health record.
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Improving Immunisation Uptake Team
The Improving Immunisation Uptake Team (IIUT) is a specialist team that works closely with and is part of, SCW’s Child Health Information Services (CHIS). The IIUT are focused on reducing variation in immunisations and increasing uptake rates in chil...
Bringing benefits to children in the NW of England as the new provider of CHIS
NHS England and NHS Improvement (Northwest), commissioned SCW to create a single CHIS service that combined six existing Cheshire and Merseyside CHIS so that all child health data is managed safely and securely in one place.
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