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Developing the priorities for Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Outcomes

Christine Lenehan Co Chair Children and Young Peoples Health Outcomes Forum

– Everyone Counts – Planning for Patients 2014/15-2018/19 – Government’s response to the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Report – Revised NHS Constitution – increased focus on integration – Updated Mandate includes the Better Health Outcomes for Children and Young People pledge, again a focus on integration – Healthy Child Programme

Overlapping strategies for improvement

– Healthy Child Programme – Care Bill – Revised NHS and Public Health Outcomes Framework – COBIC or other outcomes based commissioning approaches – Children a current policy priority

Children and young people’s health outcomes are not as good as they should be… We know this because of: – The Kennedy Review: Getting it right for Children and Young People – Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum Report

Children and Young People’s Outcomes

Report – Better Health Outcomes for Children and Young People: A system wide response – Chief Medical Officer's annual report 2012: Our Children Deserve Better: Prevention Pays – Winterbourne View Inquiry Report

Investment in children’s health

US Data but position similar in UK

Childhood deaths: Trends in Western Europe, 0-14 year olds

100 150 200 250 ity rate 0-14 years per 100,000 Austria Finland France Germany Greece Italy

5 excess child deaths daily compared to Sweden

50 Standardised mortlaity Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden United Kingdom

Children & Young People’s Health Outcomes Strategy Why the need?

If UK healthcare was equivalent to best in Europe

• 5 children /day would survive
• 1600+ / year would not die
• >100,000 life years saved each year

Most of which would be as productive adults

Children & Young People’s Health Outcomes Report – Key Principles

• The voice of children and young people
• Healthcare provision through a child friendly

lens,

• The need to adopt a life-course approach,
• The need to adopt a life-course approach,
• Building resilience and self-esteem in children

and young people

• Integrated care
• Create confidence in the system

Where do we fit ?

• We are an independent body providing expert

advice and constructive challenge into the system

• We are focused on achieving the best health
• We are focused on achieving the best health
• utcomes
• The co chairs are honorary members of the

Children and Young Peoples Board

• There are 4 meetings a year including an

annual summit

Where are we now?

• Annual Report of Forum due out in the next

few week

• Provides an update of activity in children’s

health across the system health across the system

• Poses challenges to the system , structural

and cultural

• Outlines the Forums workplan for the next

year