Improving mental health in children and young people

"With better data, transparency and accountability, the value of investment in mental wellbeing and care for child and young people can, and we believe will, be demonstrated and justified."

Future in mind: Promoting, protecting and improving our children and young people's mental health and wellbeing
Department of Health, NHS England
March 2015

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Internet-based chlamydia screening: guidance for commissioning

"This document provides guidance specifically to assist the commissioning of chlamydia screening that is accessed by young people using the internet. The advice provided can be adapted to suit local circumstances and provides suggested sections that commissioners may wish to include in their contracts with providers of internet-based chlamydia screening."

Internet-based chlamydia screening: guidance for commissioning
Public Health England
March 2015

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How to commission better mental health and wellbeing services

"Partnerships with relevant third sector organisations are critical to help commissioners reach young people."

Right Here:  How to commission better mental health and wellbeing services for young people
Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Mental Health Foundation
2014

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Click here to read a summary from The Commissioning Elf.

Commissioning the national Healthy Child Programme

"The transfer of 0-5 commissioning will join-up that already done by local authorities for public health services for children and young people 5-19, (and up to age 25 for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability [SEND])."

Factsheet: Commissioning the national Healthy Child Programme
Department of Health
August 2014

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Care leaver strategy

"Care leavers should expect the same level of care and support that other young people get from their parent."

Care leaver strategy: a cross-departmental strategy for young people leaving care
HM Government
October 2013

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Commissioning children's palliative care

"This resource is designed to support CCGs to effectively commission palliative care for children and young people. It covers the following:

• What is children’s palliative care?
• Who needs children’s palliative care?
• Who provides children’s palliative care?
• How should children’s palliative care be commissioned?"

Commissioning children's palliative care: a guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
Together for short lives
August 2013

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Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.

Designing and commissioning services for children and young people with asthma

"Delivering excellent child-centred services requires co-operation and partnership between clinicians, children’s professionals in health and education, strategic leaders in local services and children, young people and families."

Designing and commissioning services for children and young people with asthma: a good practice guide
Primary Care Commissioning
August 2013

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A new approach to delivering mental health services

"This report presents the findings of a new survey of over 2,000 young people in the UK, describing their experiences of mental health. The survey was conducted by independent polling company YouGov and sheds light on the problems of poor mental health, the associated stigma, and young people’s experience of seeking support."

Alone with my thoughts: recommendations for a new approach to young people's mental health support
MindFull
July 2013

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Joint health and social care quality standards

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published the first joint health and social care quality standards, covering:

• QS30: Supporting people to live well with dementia 
• QS31: Health and wellbeing of looked after children and young people health and wellbeing of looked-after children 

Latest evidence from NHS Evidence QIPP

QIPP Evidence provides users with practical case studies that address the quality and productivity challenge in health and social care. All examples submitted are evaluated by NICE. This evaluation is based on the degree to which the initiative meets the QIPP criteria of savings, quality, evidence and implementability. These are the latest QIPP case studies:

• Children and young people cancer survivorship initiative: improving quality and the patient experience 
• Service redevelopment: integrated whole system services for people with dementia 
• Reducing hospital admission rates for people with diabetes: a systematic approach to improving primary care outcomes 

Access more QIPP initiatives here.

Epilepsy12

"The key aims of Epilepsy12 are:

• To facilitate health providers and commissioners to measure and improve quality of care for children and young people with seizures and epilepsies; and
• To contribute to the continuing improvement of outcomes for those children, young people and their families."

Epilepsy12
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
September 2012

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NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for Children and Young Adults

"For the first time, variations across the breadth of child health services provided by NHS England are presented together to allow clinicians, commissioners and service users to identify priority areas for improving outcome, quality and productivity."

NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for Children and Young Adults
Right Care Programme, in collaboration with the Child and Maternal Health Observatory
March 2012

Find out more here.

Access the online version here.

Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for young people making the transition from child and adolescent to adult services

"Commissioners must work with public health colleagues to ensure that the needs of young people with mental health problems, including those young people whose needs are primarily met within education, social care and nonstatutory agencies and young people in contact with the criminal justice system, are identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)."


Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for young people making the transition from child and adolescent to adult services: volume 2: practical mental health commissioning
Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
February 2012

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Safe and sustainable: review of children's congenital heart services in England

"Safe and Sustainable aims to develop a national service with better clinical outcomes and a trained clinical workforce which is expert in the care and treatment of children and young people with congenital heart disease."

Safe and sustainable: review of children's congenital heart services in England
NHS Specialised Commissioning Team
August 2011

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