Better Health, Better Care: National Delivery Plan for Children and Young People's Specialist Services in Scotland

DescriptionThe National Delivery Plan meets a key milestone in the commitments set out in Better Health, Better Care. It establishes a national infrastructure for the sustainability of specialist children's services in Scotland, not just in the specialist hospitals but also in District General Hospitals and in the community: it identifies work that needs to take place at a national and regional level to sustain and develop services, drawing down the additional £32 million commited over the 3 financial year
ISBN978-0-7559-5879
Official Print Publication DateJanuary 2009
Website Publication DateJanuary 20, 2009

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

1 NATIONAL DELIVERY PLAN - DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES

2 NATIONAL DELIVERY PLAN - PLANNING FOR CHANGE

3 NATIONAL DELIVERY PLAN - A SERVICE MODEL FOR SCOTLAND
Planned Services
Sustainable Services
Collaborative Services
Accessible Services
High Quality Services
Training and Education
Outcome Measures
Patient Safety
Age Appropriate Services
Accommodated Services
Resourced Services

4 NATIONAL DELIVERY PLAN - IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES
Cancer Services
Cystic Fibrosis
Rheumatology
General Surgery of Childhood
Inherited Metabolic Diseases
Gastroenterology
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

5 NATIONAL DELIVERY PLAN - PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
Allocation of Resources
Further Work
Performance Management

CONCLUSIONS

ANNEX A: CHILDREN'S SERVICES PLANNED AND DELIVERED AT A UK AND SCOTLAND LEVEL

ANNEX B: MANAGED CLINICAL NETWORKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES IN SCOTLAND (2008)

ANNEX C: NATIONAL DELIVERY PLAN IMPLEMENTATION GROUP - ROLE, REMIT AND MEMBERSHIP

ANNEX D: REFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS

ANNEX E: GLOSSARY

Tables
Table 1 - National Steering Group Workstreams
Table 2 - Use of Video Conferencing to support Networks

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