GP Champions Toolkit

The Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH) has published a new 'GP Champions Toolkit for General Practice' . It has been endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and contains actions all GPs could carry out to improve primary care services for young people.

The work, which was carried out in partnership with Youth Access  and the RCGP Adolescent Health Group, was funded by the Department of Health and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

The work that led to the development of the Toolkit concluded that collaboration between GPs and the voluntary sector was highly successful, although the model of work was different in each of 10 pilot sites. But it also uncovered worrying trends - a significant proportion of young people weren't registered with a GP and telephone triage systems for appointments were a barrier for young people. 

The read more go to: http://www.ayph.org.uk/5/our-work/71/gp-champions-project/

The Association for young people health [AFYH] have also published a briefing on Commissioning effective primary care services for young people for Clinical Commissioning Groups, local authorities, Health and Wellbeing Boards and others to encourage commissioning of voluntary sector services.