Children, Young People and the NHS Constitution
CDC and NCB have developed new resources to raise awareness of children and young people’s rights under the NHS Constitution and empower them to be involved in their own and health and care.
The resources are free to use and consist of:
The Get Your Rights Website
The Get Your Rights websites new interactive website in partnership with children and young people to explain their rights when using the NHS.
The website has an interactive guide to the rights in the NHS Constitution, videos from young people telling their stories about how the rights have made a difference to them, and messages from professionals explaining why they value young people’s rights.
It also has links to resources to support applying those rights in practice.
The Get Your Rights Toolkit
The Get Your Rights toolkit has practical resources to helps professionals have conversations with children and young people about their rights in the NHS Constitution.
It has been piloted by local Healthwatch organisations across the country, who used it in lots of different ways with diverse groups of children and young peoplefrom introducing basic concepts about rights to planning campaign to improve local services.
You can find out more about the resource at
www.councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/nhsconstitution
The Reports
The resources are based on research carried out with children and young people across England.
Research with children and young people across the country found that they were unaware of their rights and this was impacting on their experience of using the NHS. You can access our reports here: http://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/our-work/health-and-wellbeing/policy/understanding-your-rights-health-system