Health services for young people

The Department of Health has appointed a consortium of seven youth charities to be its strategic partner in helping to improve health services for young people.

The Young People’s Health Partnership consortium has been awarded £200,000 to carry out work, including gathering young people’s opinions on health services, during 2013/14 as part of the Department of Health’s Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme.

Led by the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS), the group also includes Addaction, the Association for Young People's Health, Brook, CLIC Sargent, Street Games and Youth Access.

The consortium’s projects include investigating how to improve health outcomes for young people as they make the transition from child to adult health services.

They will also consult young people about their experiences of health services and share their opinions with the department, NHS England and Public Health England.

The group is among a total of 21 organisations and consortia that were named as DH strategic partners in April, including Regional Voices, of which One East Midlands is a member.