This is a practical guide to help school staff and those who support younger children to have an awareness of asthma as a medical condition and the needs of pupils during the school day. This document aims to enable schools to effectively manage children and young people with asthma in a school setting. The following […]
These are slides from the 25 April 2017 event that brought together expertise and insight to strengthen London’s care of children and young people in general practice. GP practices are starting to work together at scale across London. Improving the care of children and young people is a priority and we are delighted to support […]
Our Transforming Cancer Services Team and the London Living with and Beyond Cancer Board held an event to consider: “Excellent psychological support for those affected by cancer: how can we deliver the right support, at the right time, in the right place?” Downloads Sign up to our newsletter.
A guide to available datasets and reports for children and young people on mental health and wellbeing. The guide signposts the information and resources we believe will be helpful to commissioners, hospital trusts and others. The ability to measure the work that we do and what we achieve for and with our patients is an […]
This report is aimed at commissioners interested in developing new models to deliver out-of-hospital healthcare services for children and young people. The document describes the audit that was carried out across six London emergency departments during a two-week period in February and March 2016. During the audit, clinicians reviewed 3,020 children and young people attendances from 10am […]
This document is intended to enable schools to manage children and young people with epilepsy effectively in an early years or school setting. Recommendations and guidelines contained within are derived from clinical practices and from contributions from stakeholders across London. The Children and Families Act 2014 introduced a legal duty on schools to look after children […]
Free online e-learning resources are available for primary care teams. All items listed are online modules unless otherwise specified. Resources are listed according to the Royal College of General Practice’s curriculum for children and young people. Please share this information with your colleagues. If there are resources you think should be included on this list please get […]
Laura Phelan, founder of Phelan Well and a member of our young people’s steering group, talks about being diagnosed with an eating disorder at an early age, her experiences of care in London and her personal road to recovery. My name is Laura, I’m twenty-four and I run a wellness and fitness business to improve mental […]
This report is designed to help shape the commissioning of cancer rehabilitation services in London. It identifies London’s key challenges to improving cancer rehabilitation services and discusses the impact on patients. It provides recommendations for future commissioning of cancer rehabilitation services. The report looks at: A wide range of stakeholders were involved in this report. […]
Young people generate ideas for tackling childhood obesity More than 60 young people from across London attended our Healthy London Hackathon at City Hall on Saturday 28 January. The 14-17 year-olds discussed how London makes it harder to be healthy, brainstormed ideas for making London healthier for children and young people, and then worked in […]