Flora GoldhillDirector for Children, Families & Maternity and Health Inequalities, Department of Health

Improving Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes- A System Wide Response

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Our System Wide Pledge

We are committed to improving the health outcomes of our children and young people so that they become amongst the best in the world

We all have a part to play in promoting the independence of the health of our children and young people

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The health outcomes that matter most

Actions taken

New outcomes indicators

Data – 5 year age bands

Work underway

Developing new outcome measures

Commitments made

Surveys

Disaggregating data by inequalities & equalities

PHE Atlas of Variation for Children and Young People

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Leadership, accountability & assurance

Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum &

Board

CQC thematic reviews Accountability for safeguarding

Clear and accountable system leadership

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At the heart of what happens

NHS Constitution – accessible and relevant

Healthwatch

Listening to the voice of children and young people to improve health outcomes

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Acting early and intervening at the right time

Improving health across the life course

Reducing health inequalities

Improving outcomes for vulnerable children (including looked after children and young people)

Providing the best start in life

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Integration and partnership

Partnership board on children and young people’s health

Sharing information Joint working

New health system – duties to support integration of care

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Safe and sustainable services

Service reconfiguration

to meet the needs

of children and young people

Reporting and reducing

drug errors

Strategic clinical networks,

local networks & partnerships

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Workforce, education and training

General practice workforce

• Named medical & nursing lead

• Common competency framework

• Adequate training

Safe & sustainable workforce for children & young people

• Health Education England

• Lead LETB for children and young people

• Centre for Workforce Intelligence – future work

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Knowledge and evidence

Health intelligence network

for children and young people

New national maternity,

child and CAMHS dataset

Quality standards

for children and young people

Electronic health records

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Incentives for driving service improvement

Strategic work on pricingNHS CB and Monitor

CQC’s use of data

to target regulatory activity

National tariff: DH, NHS CB and Monitor working closely to manage transition

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Working with the voluntary sector

• What are the opportunities?

• What are the priorities?

• How best to engage the voluntary sector?