Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum

The Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum has published a report containing recommendations and a new strategy to improve health results and care for children and young people.

The forum consists of an independent group of experts from local government, the NHS and charities and undertook the work at the request of the Secretary of State for Education.

Key recommendations from the report include:

• The NHS Childrens Board must ensure there is a nationally designated, strategically managed network for children and young people. This should include maternity and neo-natal care
• All data about children and young people should be presented in five year age bands through childhood and the teenage years to allow long term comparisons to be drawn
• By 2013–14, Department for Health and the NHS Commissioning Boards should incorporate the views of children and young people into existing national patient surveys in all care settings
• All organisations in the new health system should take a life-course approach, coherently addressing the different stages in life and the key transitions instead of tackling individual risk factors in isolation.

For further information on the forum visit http://healthandcare.dh.gov.uk/category/children. To download the report visit www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-experts-set-out-recommendations-to-improve-children-and-young-people-s-health-results.