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...
Becoming Youth Rights Champions
The AYPH We’re All Right project has developed a learning hub where individuals and organisations can practice and improve their responses to young people who have experienced sexual violence and other traumas. Learners also have the opportunity to become certified...
Improving access to secondary care for young people
Are there problems for young people accessing secondary care if they are close to the age cut-offs for different services? Lizzie Wortley shares AYPH’s new report on the issue. Sometimes we are so used to the status quo that we can all miss the obvious. In Spring...
What young people think about the development of Integrated Care Systems
In 2018, NHS England announced the formation of 40+ Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across the country, to improve joined up care across health, education, and social care in local areas. All ICSs must provide for children and young people as part of the population...