Implementing MDI with carbohydrate counting for children at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes

"It was agreed within the team to improve glycaemic control in this first week of diagnosis we needed to start using carbohydrate counting and insulin correction doses at diagnosis. Therefore, in January 2015, in all newly-diagnosed children and teenagers, we started MDI with carbohydrate counting education, and insulin correction doses from the first time insulin is given."

Implementing multiple daily injection insulin regimens (MDI) with carbohydrate counting for children and young people at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes: education provided by the Children’s Diabetes Service for patients, families and staff
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
NICE Shared learning example
April 2016

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Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Guidance and support for local areas

"The report sets out a clear national ambition to transform the design and delivery of a local offer of services for children and young people with mental health needs."

Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Guidance and support for local areas
NHS England
August 2015

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Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder

"Guidance setting out commissioning standards and requirements for providing community-based eating disorder services for children and young people, with related referral to treatment pathways and access and waiting time standard."

Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder: Commissioning Guide
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, NHS England.
July 2015

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Using Incentives To Improve Experience In Maternity, Children And Young People's Services

"The report will discuss three core recommendations, each with a number of sub-recommendations to support local, regional and national discussions on how CQUINs and other financial incentive schemes can be used to improve the quality and effectiveness of maternity, children and young people’s services." 

Using Incentives To Improve Experience In Maternity, Children And Young People's Services
P Kumalo, M Cunnington
NHS South East CSU
July 2015

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Facing the Future Together for Child Health

"Facing the Future: Together for Child Health represents a standard of care which children and their parents and carers can expect from the healthcare professionals looking after them. We hope that healthcare professionals will see them not just as standards to strive toward, but as a lever to continue to improve the safety, quality and sustainability of services." 

Facing the Future Together for Child Health
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Nursing
April 2015

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Improving the care of children with urinary tract infection

"Instituting the clinical decision proforma and its supporting educational programme was an extremely positive action as it has significantly improved the management of children with UTI at our unit."

Improving the care of children with urinary tract infection: use of a clinical decision proforma
D Leach
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208341.w3300

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Investing in children's mental health

"Our review of the evidence shows that for all these conditions there are interventions that are not only effective in improving outcomes but also good value for money, in some cases outstandingly so, as measured by the surplus of measurable economic benefits over the costs of intervention." 

Investing in children's mental health: A review of evidence on the costs and benefits of increased service provision
L Khan, M Parsonage, J Stubbs
Centre Forum’s Mental Health Commission, Centre for Mental Health
February 2015

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Health Visiting Programme and 0-5 Commissioning of Public Health Services

"Local authorities know their communities and understand local need so can commission the most vital services to improve local children’s health and wellbeing. One of the benefits of councils commissioning health visitor services is that it offers opportunities to link with wider systems, such as housing, early years education providers and to enable the integration of children’s services." 

Factsheet on Health Visiting and commissioning of public health services for 0 to 5 year olds
Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS England
November 2014

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Wheelchair interventions, services and provision for disabled children

"There is a distinct lack of high quality effectiveness and economic evidence in this field. Social and health needs should be seen as equally important when assessing the mobility needs of disabled children."

Wheelchair interventions, services and provision for disabled children: a mixed-method systematic review and conceptual framework
N Bray, J Noyes, RT Edwards, N Harris
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:309

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Commissioning of public health services for children

"The purpose of the High Impact Area documents is to articulate the contribution of health visitors to the 0-5 agenda and describe areas where health visitors have a significant impact on health and wellbeing and improving outcomes for children, families and communities.

The six High Impact Areas are:

• Transition to Parenthood and the Early Weeks 
• Maternal Mental Health (Perinatal Depression)
• Breastfeeding (Initiation and Duration)
• Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition (to include 
• Physical Activity)
• Managing Minor Illness and Reducing 

  Accidents (Reducing Hospital 

  Attendance/Admissions)
• Health, Wellbeing and Development of the 

  Child Age 2 – Two year old review 

  (integrated review) and support to be ‘ready for school’"

Commissioning of public health services for children

Department of Health

July 2014

Find out more and access all the resources here.

School nursing: public health services

"This guidance supports effective commissioning of school nursing services to provide public health for school aged children. It also explains how local school nursing services can be used and improved to meet local needs."

School nursing: public health services

Department of Health 

March 2014

Find out more and access all the resources here.

Leeds children’s heart surgery services review

"The Leeds children’s heart surgery services review was undertaken to issues raised regarding the safety and quality of care at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. A significant amount of work has been undertaken to establish an accurate picture of the services provided by the Trust, including a detailed review of cases and interviews with families to understand their experiences."

The review contains two papers:

• Mortality Case Review for the period 2009- 2013
• Family Experience Report

Children’s Congenital Cardiac Surgery Services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
NHS England
March 2014

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Implementing evidence-based programmes in children's services

"This report brings together the latest international thinking about the key issues relating to the implementation of evidence-based programmes, utilising both published work and expert opinion."

Implementing evidence-based programmes in children's services: key issues for success
M Wiggins, H Austerberry, H Ward
Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre
Department for Education
October 2012

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Value of healthcare services

Doctors, nurses and other health professionals are coming together with  patients and their representatives to look at health services in south west London in the Better Services, Better Value review. The following six reports show much of the thinking and analysis that has taken place to understand how people use the south west London health services and the quality of the service they receive in terms of outcomes and experience.

• Long-term conditions and out of hospital care (including mental health) clinical working group: draft clinical report
• Planned care clinical working group: draft clinical report
• Maternity and newborn clinical working group: draft clinical report
• Children's services clinical working group: draft clinical report
• End of life care working group: draft clinical report
• Urgent care clinical working group: draft clinical report