Elizabeth Stephenson and Carol Ewing: child health policy update
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The document outlines the NHS England's 2015/16 business plan, emphasizing ten key priorities aimed at improving care quality and access for children and young people, particularly in areas such as cancer and mental health services. It highlights the need for focused efforts on acute care improvement, addressing high child mortality rates and variability in health outcomes, while detailing collaborative initiatives involving various healthcare networks. Specific programs targeting children's healthcare needs and advocacy are also mentioned, along with a commitment to ongoing workforce planning and standardization in pediatric services.
Elizabeth Stephenson and Carol Ewing: child health policy update
- 1. www.england.nhs.uk Policy update: the national picture Elizabeth Stephenson, Children and Young People Policy Lead, NHS England Dr Carol Ewing, Vice President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 15 September 2015
- 2. www.england.nhs.uk Introduction – NHS England programmes
- 3. www.england.nhs.uk Drivers of National Priorities Mandate from Government • Main basis of Ministerial instruction to the NHS, sets out what NHS England must achieve in return for approx £95bn taxpayers’ money NHS Outcomes Framework • Provides a national level overview of how the NHS is performing in 5 domains spanning 3 dimensions of quality (effectiveness, experience, safety) • Used to hold NHS England to account via Mandate for delivering improvement in outcomes NHS England Business Plan 2015/16 10 priorities: 1. Improving the quality of care and access to cancer treatment 2. Upgrading the quality of care and access to mental health and dementia services 3. Transforming care for people with learning disabilities 4. Tackling obesity and preventing diabetes 5. Redesigning urgent and emergency care services 6. Strengthening primary care services 7. Timely access to high quality elective care 8. Ensuring high quality and affordable specialised care 9. Whole system change for future clinical and financial sustainability 10. Foundations for improvement
- 4. www.england.nhs.uk CYP are embedded in NHS England’s core programmes… … plus other stand alone programmes 1. Cancer: Specific recommendations for CTYA made through cancer taskforce’s report 2. Mental health access and waits: new access and waiting time standards for Early Intervention Psychosis (EIP) and Eating Disorders will be applicable to CYP 3. Supporting people with LDs: Aim to reduce inpatient admissions for those with LD/autism applies to children and complements EHCP 5. Urgent & Emergency Care: children form one of the ‘lenses’ through which the proposed new model will be viewed. 4. Long-term conditions: the model of care planning, house of care model, and recent resources developed are ‘all ages’ 6. New care models: aiming to work with interested vanguards, UEC and acute care collaboration vanguards; Support offer already submitted
- 5. www.england.nhs.uk And there are other specific programmes for CYP • Reducing premature mortality: o Still birth reduction o Detection of the deteriorating child o Paediatric sepsis • Improving transition to adulthood (paediatric to adult services) • Improving care for children with special educational needs • Improving children and young people’s experience of care • Improving acute care for children and young people
- 6. www.england.nhs.uk Why focus on improving acute care for CYP? • Very high child and infant mortality rates compared to the EU15: 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 DSRper100,000 Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden United Kingdom EU15 average Age standardised all cause mortality 0-14 years, UK and EU-15 member states1990-2012
- 7. www.england.nhs.uk Variation persists and the system is under pressure • There is huge variation in child health throughout England, e.g.: o 2.6-fold variation in % of children with diabetes admitted to hospital in life- threatening DKA2 • ED Departments are under increasing stress: o Rising ED attendances for CYP o 40% over 10 years • For 2013/14, ED attendances for CYP exceeded those of older people… • But admission rates were low…
- 8. www.england.nhs.uk Improving Care for Acutely Ill Children and Young People programme • Virtual group of policy experts and clinicians established from variety of providers and specialties • Remit to support improvement in acute care for CYP: o Advise, influence and advocate • Partnership working with the 12 Strategic Clinical Networks for CYP and Maternity to: o Inform of local best practice o Share learning from Vanguards and other programmes • 3 key priorities: o Improving care for acutely ill CYP within the urgent and emergency care system o Improving care at the interface between services and pathways for acutely ill CYP o Recognising and responding to the deteriorating child in the inpatient setting
- 9. www.england.nhs.uk • UECR ongoing • Publishing “what good looks like” and disseminating models of care provision • Establishment of new Urgent and Emergency Care Networks The Urgent and Emergency Care Review The model:
- 10. www.england.nhs.uk Safer, faster, better – good practice “Much of the good practice highlighted in this paper for adult services is relevant for paediatric care. However, paediatric standards are generally more demanding as paediatrics is a very short stay specialty service and is increasingly provided on a network basis”
- 11. www.england.nhs.uk Safer, faster, better – good practice within the UEC system Improving care within the UEC system Implement intercollegiate national emergency care standards Intercollegiate safeguarding standards (+have a 24h place of safety) Separate childrens stream/paeds ED Dedicated paediatric staffing and paeds-specific triage Provision for high volume surges for quick assessment
- 12. www.england.nhs.uk Safer, faster, better – good practice at service interface Improving care at the service interface Ensure access to GPs experienced in paediatrics (especially OOH) Consider SSPAU as an alternative to ED and admission Develop separate primary care stream in hospital Develop, agree & monitor access to community nursing Ensure 24/7 access to PMHL services SSPAU = short stay paediatric assessment unit PMHL = paediatric mental health liaison
- 13. www.england.nhs.uk IMPROVE OUTCOMES AND REDUCE MORTALITY & INEQUALITIES PREVENT ILL HEALTH IN ICYP & INTERVENE EARLY PRIORITISE THE HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF ICY ICYP PARTICIPATION & ADVOCACY Royal College of Child and Paediatrics and Child Health Dr Carol Ewing
- 14. RCPCH POLICY PRIORITIES IMPROVE OUTCOMES AND REDUCE MORTALITY & INEQUALITIES PREVENT ILL HEALTH IN ICYP & INTERVENE EARLY PRIORITISE THE HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF ICYP CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES FOR ICYP DEVELOPING, UPDATING AND REVISING THE EVIDENCE BASE ICYP PARTICIPATION & ADVOCACY
- 15. BIENNIAL WORKFORCE CENSUS • Provides key data for developing College workforce planning policy. • Growth and trends in UK paediatric workforce • Covers: - Medical career grade workforce and vacancies - Hospital services and rotas - Community services - Community lead roles - Safeguarding services - Tertiary services • www.rcpch.ac.uk/census
- 16. REVISED 2015 FACING THE FUTURE: STANDARDS FOR ACUTE GENERAL PAEDIATRIC SERVICES To ensure paediatrics is a 24/7 service with the most experienced doctors present at the busiest times. www.rcpch.ac.uk/facingthefuture Key changes: • Increased consultant presence (five year aspiration: 12 hours a day, 7 days a week) • All children admitted with an acute medical problem are seen by a consultant paediatrician within 14 hours of admission (previously 24 hours) • Two consultant led handovers every 24 hours (previously one) • Further guidance on the composition of rotas to recognise that there are a growing number of ways of achieving safe, experienced cover
- 17. NEW FACING THE FUTURE: TOGETHER FOR CHILD HEALTH Joint RCPCH, RCN, RCGP standards for unscheduled care Ensure there is always high quality diagnosis and care early in the pathway Provide care closer to home where appropriate Provide specialist child health expertise directly into general practice www.rcpch.ac.uk/togetherforchildhealth • Standards 1 to 6 focus on supporting general practice to safely care for the child in the community, preventing unnecessary attendances and admissions • It will be necessary for some children to be cared for in hospital and standards 5 to 8 focus on reducing the length of stay and enabling these children to go home as safely and as quickly as possible • Standards 9 to 11 look more widely at connecting the whole system and improving the patient experience
- 18. RELATED DOCUMENTS Intercollegiate Standards for Emergency Care: provides healthcare professionals, providers/planners & commissioners with urgent and emergency care settings standards. High Dependency Care for Children – Time to Move on: Recommendations to improve critical care outside PICU and emphasis vitally important role of networked approaches to care. Standards for Children’s Surgery: to ensure children can receive surgery in a safe, appropriate environment, which is as close to their home as possible.
- 19. OUTCOME MEASURES FOR ACUTE GENERAL PAEDIATRICS Project aims: • To define 5-10 universally applicable, and measureable outcome measures for acute paediatric services that can be used to indicate changes in the quality of care over time, which may result from service change. • Be relevant to clinicians, children and young people, their parents, and health care commissioners and service planners. • Be applicable across the four UK nations. Domains: 1. Overall acute healthcare utilisation 2. Acute healthcare utilisation for long term conditions, including mental health problems 3. Safety 4. Process markers of care quality proven to have impact of outcomes 5. Measures of acute healthcare access & experience www.rcpch.ac.uk/outcomes
- 20. KEY CHALLENGES TO IMPLEMENTATION • Four nation approach • Participation of children and young people and families → & US • Networked models of care → Bringing Networks to Life • Remote and rural units