Better Health, Better Care: Hospital Services for Young People in Scotland

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Annex A: Remit and Membership of Age Appropriate Care Working Group

Remit:

To review the implications of raising the age limit for children's hospitals in Scotland and to offer advice and recommendations as to how this can be enacted in ways which will enhance hospital services for young people while maintaining the highest clinical standards.

This will involve:

  • Identifying anticipated changes in the patterns of clinical presentations to children's hospital services and the associated implications for service delivery and staff training
  • Exploring best practice models of hospital care for adolescents and how these might be appropriately applied within the NHS in Scotland
  • Identifying the training needs inherent in ensuring that staff in children's hospitals are equipped to address the specific emotional, social and legal requirements of young people and working with NHS Education Scotland to consider how these needs should be addressed
  • Identifying the practical implications of re-organising services and patient journeys to enact a change of age limits within a Health Board area
  • Identifying the implications of a change of age limits for other services accessed by young people in hospital including, specifically, education
  • Reviewing the interface between adult services and those provided for children and young people and making recommendations regarding best practice in transition care
  • Undertaking the above tasks in ways that take cognisance of both DGH and specialist children's hospital services and also the opportunities offered by the new hospital developments planned for Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Membership of Age Appropriate Care Working Group

Mary Boyle

NHS Education Scotland and SPENS

Linda Buchanan

SPENS

Ann Burnett

Hospital Teaching Service

Rose Byrne

Project Manager, RHSCE Reprovision Project

Andrea Cail

Project Manager, SGHD

Bronwen Cohen

Children in Scotland

Sarah Corcoran

Policy Officer, SGHD

Lorraine Currie

Child Health Commissioners

Mr Rod Duncan

SCCCSS (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Dr George Farmer

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Dr Miles Fisher

RCPS Glasgow

Gwen Garner

Action for Sick Children (Scotland)

Dr Sarah Glen

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Mr Graham Haddock

SCCCSS (Paediatric Surgery)

Dr Patricia Jackson

Scottish Complex Needs Group

Mr Morgan Jamieson

National Clinical Lead for Children and Young People's Health in Scotland, SGHD (Chair)

Prof Chris Kelnar

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Valerie Kennedy

Allied Health Professionals (Physiotherapy)

Dr Hilary Maddox

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Jan Maxwell

Specialist Nurse, Young People ( RHSCG)

Dr Heather Maxwell

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Sheila MacDonald

Allied Health Professionals (Radiography)

Dr Una MacFadyen

SEAT Regional Planning Group

Mr Iain Muir

Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

Dr Jane Peutrell

Royal College of Anaesthetists and APA

Dr Fiona Russell

SCCCSS (A and E)

Dr David Simpson

SCCCSS (Intensive Care)

Dr Margaret Thomson

Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Dr Iain Wallace

NHS Medical Directors

Rhoda Walker

NHS Directors of Nursing

Dr Laura Webster

Royal College of General Practitioners

Anne Wilson

Contact a Family

Prof George Youngson

SCCCSS (Paediatric Surgery)

APA

Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists

RCPS

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

RHSCE

Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh

RHSCG

Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow

SCCCSS

Scottish Colleges' Committee for Children's Surgical Services

SEAT

South East and Tayside

SGHD

Scottish Government Health Directorates

SPENS

Senior Paediatric Educationalists and Nurses, Scotland

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