Like many others in the NHS, autumn and winter are undoubtedly the busiest seasons for us in the Children’s Asthma Service at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. Our service was commissioned to reduce the number of asthma-related A&E attendances and …
So it’s Friday and we come to the end of our week of action focussing on children and young people 5-19. During #health5to19 it has been great to have so many of you join us, to hear from so many …
It has been a busy week as usual but this week has been quite special; we have had a real focus on children and young people and how together we can make a difference. Whilst the focus was on 5-19, …
The Public Health England week of action #health5to19 is a great opportunity for us to share our young carers work from Blackpool. In case you don’t know a Young Carer is a child that cares for someone in their family …
Health care services play an important role in each and every individual’s life, including young people’s. This is why the young should be involved in making decisions regarding their care - they are not an add-on to the service but …
Forrest Gump once said that life is like a box of chocolates, but if life is like a box of chocolates, then growing up must be like eating those chocolates upside down and immersed head first in a vat of …
I was 16 years old. Being 16 is a busy time and it certainly was for me; I was a school leaver and from recently separated parents. I had a new and very scary job in a bank. I started …
Half of all mental health problems are established by the age of 14 and 75% by early adulthood. 1 in 10 children and young people have a diagnosable mental health problem and yet accessing support is still a challenge. (Mental …
School Nurses know so well paediatric or children and young people’s care generally ends at 16 years of age requiring a move to adult services yet this age group is often invisible when we address experiences of care. Perhaps it …
The Queen’s Nursing Institute is undertaking a two-year project, funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, which looks at how we can enable community nurses to support young people with long term conditions, who have transitioned from children’s services to …
