This document explores the challenges relating to healthcare for London’s children and young people who have autism spectrum disorder. It offers an outline of: Issues currently faced in London Experiences of families (case study) Map of services Best practice examples Recommendations Downloads
Pledge to improve the treatment and management of asthma in children and young people. Help support children and young people with asthma by making a #MyAsthmaPledge. Small steps improve lives – an asthma plan, annual review and help with inhalers. help manage and improve the treatment of asthma and wheeze. Downloads
We have developed a set of ambitions for how asthma care should be delivered across the city. Each organisation (primary and community care, acute care, pharmacy, schools) will have a clear named lead who will be responsible and accountable for asthma (which includes children and young people). Downloads
Our Transforming Cancer Services Team’s clinicians, in partnership with Public Health England, have researched the demographic variation of people living in London with serious co-morbidities (that involved an inpatient stay) at the time of their cancer diagnosis. People who are diagnosed with cancer may often have other diseases or long term conditions. These comorbidities can […]
Case studies and examples to support trusts to reduce their impact on air pollution. London suffers from high levels of air pollution. Air pollution acts as a trigger for many children and young people with asthma, contributing to ED and intensive care admissions, and possibly some asthma deaths. To provide support for this, we have […]
The report looks back at how the cancer team has supported the ongoing delivery of the Five Year Forward View, the National Cancer Strategy recommendations and our partners across London in 2016/17. Some of the team’s achievements last year include: Delivering a comprehensive baseline capacity and demand position for diagnostic services across London. This also identified potential for […]
Commissioners can use this document to create a business case to take to their board to help develop a lymphoedema service in their area. The template business case is a practical tool based on, and to be used alongside, the commissioning guidance for lymphoedema services published in August 2016. Although the template business case focuses on the […]
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 […]
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.
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: Poor understanding of the economic benefits of rehabilitation The lack […]