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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Children and young people's survey 2014

"This is the first national children’s survey conducted by CQC. It represents the experiences of nearly 19,000 children and young people who received inpatient or day case care in 137 acute NHS trusts in 2014."

Children and young people's survey 2014
Care Quality Commission
July 2015

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Adolescents leaving mental health or social care services

"Given that, in this report, psychosocial outcomes of young people leaving any services is substantially sub-optimal very serious consideration should be given to holistic improvement of transition policies and young adult services across adolescent service providers. "

Adolescents leaving mental health or social care services: predictors of mental health and psychosocial outcomes one year later
J Memarzia, MC St Clair, M Owens, IM Goodyer, VJ Dunn
BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:185  doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0853-9

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Compliance of monitoring side effects of medication in the treatment of ADHD

"The audit was carried out to determine compliance of monitoring side effects of medication in the treatment of ADHD/ADD in children and young people as recommended by NICE Clinical Guideline 72. The audit was deemed necessary to provide a basis on which to carry out future audits and to improve the service."

To determine compliance of monitoring side effects of medication in the treatment of ADHD in children and young people as recommended by NICE CG72
NICE Shared Learning example
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
March 2015

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NICE Guideline: Depression in children and young people

The NICE guideline for depression in children and young people has been updated, with a number of changes to the recommendations for safe and effective antidepressant use.

Depression in children and young people: Identification and management in primary, community and secondary care
NICE guidelines [CG28]
March 2015

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Improving mental health services for young people

"The report sets out how much of this can be achieved through better working between the NHS, local authorities, voluntary and community services, schools and other local services. It also makes it clear that many of these changes can be achieved by working differently, rather than needing significant investment."

Improving mental health services for young people
Department of Health
March 2015

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How to commission better mental health and wellbeing services for young people

"In this guide, we will consider how commissioners can add value at each stage of the commissioning process to ensure that the most appropriate services are procured to address the mental health needs of young people aged 16–25."

How to commission better mental health and wellbeing services for young people
Right Here (Mental Health Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation)
October 2014

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The experience of engaging with mental health services among young people who hear voices and their families

"Whilst the survey showed that some young people and their families had more positive experiences, many expressed dissatisfaction. To fulfil the needs of young people and their families, mental health services would benefit from developing alternative approaches to voice hearing and running support groups that could form part of a ‘normalising’ and ‘holistic care’ package."

The experience of engaging with mental health services among young people who hear voices and their families: a mixed methods exploratory study
P Kapur, D Hayes, R Waddingham, S Hillman, J Deighton, N Midgley
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:527

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User-generated quality standards for youth mental health in primary care

"The development of patient-generated quality standards may offer a more formal method of incorporating the views of service users into quality improvement initiatives. This method can be adapted for generating quality standards applicable to other patient groups."

User-generated quality standards for youth mental health in primary care: a participatory research design using mixed methods
T Graham, D Rose, J Murray, M Ashworth, A Tylee
BMJ Quality and Safety 2014;23:857-866

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Report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum

"If we compare ourselves with the country with the lowest mortality for children and young people, Sweden (after controlling for population size among other variables), we find that in the UK every day five children under the age of 14 die who would not die in Sweden."

Report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum 2013/14
I Lewis, C Lenehan
April 2014

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Care leaver strategy

"Care leavers should expect the same level of care and support that other young people get from their parent."

Care leaver strategy: a cross-departmental strategy for young people leaving care
HM Government
October 2013

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Commissioning children's palliative care

"This resource is designed to support CCGs to effectively commission palliative care for children and young people. It covers the following:

• What is children’s palliative care?
• Who needs children’s palliative care?
• Who provides children’s palliative care?
• How should children’s palliative care be commissioned?"

Commissioning children's palliative care: a guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
Together for short lives
August 2013

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Designing and commissioning services for children and young people with asthma

"Delivering excellent child-centred services requires co-operation and partnership between clinicians, children’s professionals in health and education, strategic leaders in local services and children, young people and families."

Designing and commissioning services for children and young people with asthma: a good practice guide
Primary Care Commissioning
August 2013

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A new approach to delivering mental health services

"This report presents the findings of a new survey of over 2,000 young people in the UK, describing their experiences of mental health. The survey was conducted by independent polling company YouGov and sheds light on the problems of poor mental health, the associated stigma, and young people’s experience of seeking support."

Alone with my thoughts: recommendations for a new approach to young people's mental health support
MindFull
July 2013

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Joint health and social care quality standards

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published the first joint health and social care quality standards, covering:

• QS30: Supporting people to live well with dementia
• QS31: Health and wellbeing of looked after children and young people health and wellbeing of looked-after children

Latest evidence from NHS Evidence QIPP

QIPP Evidence provides users with practical case studies that address the quality and productivity challenge in health and social care. All examples submitted are evaluated by NICE. This evaluation is based on the degree to which the initiative meets the QIPP criteria of savings, quality, evidence and implementability. These are the latest QIPP case studies:

• Children and young people cancer survivorship initiative: improving quality and the patient experience
• Service redevelopment: integrated whole system services for people with dementia
• Reducing hospital admission rates for people with diabetes: a systematic approach to improving primary care outcomes

Access more QIPP initiatives here.

Epilepsy12

"The key aims of Epilepsy12 are:

• To facilitate health providers and commissioners to measure and improve quality of care for children and young people with seizures and epilepsies; and
• To contribute to the continuing improvement of outcomes for those children, young people and their families."

Epilepsy12
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
September 2012

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