National Child Health Service Mapping
A briefing paper on the development of National Child Health Service Mapping is now available on the DH website. Work has now begun to develop a mapping tool to help describe health provision and its interface with social care and education. The mapping tool will track progress in achieving key National Policy targets.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/ChildrenServices/ChildrenServicesInformation/ChildrenServicesInformationArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4089412&chk=HL80TH
The exercise aims to develop child health services locally and nationally by providing information that will support the implementation of child policy.
Locally and nationally, the mapping aims to:
Support the bid for resources by illustrating the distance between current service provision and new standards;
Support the development of meaningful Performance Indicators for children's health services;
Monitor progress on the implementation of child policy, notably the Green Paper and the Children's National Service framework;
Specifically support the development of Children's Trusts and Joint Commissioning Strategies through the provision of information that will support a comprehensive needs assessment and clearly define health's contribution in resource terms;
Support new inspection regimes through the provision of data about each local authority which can be used by Joint Area Review teams as part of their inspections processes;
Provide a common methodology that will allow local and national benchmarking and the monitoring of progress over time;
Provide the public and patients with access to helpful information about their local services through the development of a local service directory.
A National Child Health Service Mapping Team was established April 2004 to take this forward. They are:
a.. Claire Hartley, National Child Health Service Mapping Lead
b.. Pauline Dowson, National Child Health Service Mapping Project Officer
Telephone: 0191 333 3281
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