Childrens Health
What did we say in Healthy Ambitions?*
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The Children’s Services Pathway Group recognised that the health of children in Y&H is amongst the worst in the country and that there were significant challenges to be overcome in future years – for example close to 1 in 5 boys and 3 in 10 girls in the region were expected to be obese by 2010. For girls this is nearly twice the national average.
They therefore recommended that:
- Comprehensive children’s primary care teams should be developed.
- There should be improved paediatric expertise in primary care.
- There should be a single phone line for advice on children.
- There should be a series of summits for our regional experts to improve the care of children with asthma and diabetes.
- Routine planned surgery for children should take place as locally as possible, specialist and emergency surgery to be concentrated where it will improve outcomes.
- There should be support for the recommendations in a number of other areas as they affect children (e.g. urgent care; planned care, staying healthy etc.).
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