A warm welcome for You’re Welcome: new quality criteria for youth friendly health services
Last week the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) published a revised and updated version of the You’re Welcome quality criteria for youth friendly health services. AYPH welcomes the criteria and in this blog we reflect on the content and some...
Young people facing transition between services still face systemic difficulties
NCEPOD ( The National Confidential Inquiry into Patient Outcome and Death) released a report last week into transition with five recommendations. Sadly, the main message is that despite Royal College of Nursing, NICE, and Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health...
AYPH has joined the End Child Poverty Coalition
It is impossible to ignore the links between poverty and health outcomes. That’s why we’ve joined the End Child Poverty Coalition, to make sure that all young people have an equal opportunity to lead healthy lives. Encouraging efforts to reduce the health inequalities...
Pulling together the main messages from key data on young people’s health in the UK
As part of our work to make the evidence base on youth health as accessible as possible, the AYPH research team has published a new article on the main UK population level data compendia that distinctly involve young people age 10-24 years. We set out some of the main...