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...
The importance of effective transition
In this blog post, AYPH’s youth intern Angela Baird describes the process of transitioning between child and adult health services. She discusses the impact that negative transitions can have for young people with long term health conditions and advocates for more...
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...