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...
Reimagining food in secondary schools
As part of the We Are Food Secure 11-19 project in Newham over 40 stakeholders got together last month to brainstorm how secondary schools can play a part in reducing food insecurity for teenagers. In the first stage of this Health Foundation funded project we had...
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...