Category: Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Statistics

Child health profiles

By Public Health England (2014)

Child Health Profiles provide a snapshot of child health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using key health indicators, which enables comparison locally, regionally and nationally.

By using the profiles local organisations can work in partnership to plan and commission evidence-based services based on local need. The profiles allow you to compare the outcomes in your local population with others in order to identify and learn from better performing areas.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity

Summary of the National Child Measurement Programme and nutrition and healthy weight regional events

By Public Health England (2014)

In winter 2013, PHE held 6 regional events focused on child obesity, the NCMP, healthy weight and nutrition. The child obesity and NCMP workshops enabled PHE to get a better insight to current child obesity and NCMP implementation. This document summarises the events and their outcomes.

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Accident Prevention Alcohol Cancer Care of the Elderly Community Safety CVD CYP Healthcare Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Infant Feeding Infant Mortality Infection Control Library Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Mortality Nutrition Obesity Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Tobacco & Drugs

The future of public health: a horizon scan

By RAND Europe (2014)

Public Health England (PHE) commissioned RAND Europe to undertake a horizon scanning study exploring the future of public health and related scientific services. This work was intended to help inform thinking at the strategic level within PHE, firstly in relation to the wider vision of the Agency and, secondly, in relation to the proposals for the creation of an integrated public health science hub. The report focuses on the different future public health science needs and the extent to which an integrated science hub could serve PHE as it evolves over the next twenty years.

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Cancer Children CYP Healthcare Good Practice Guidance Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Infant Mortality

Children and young people with cancer

By NICE (February 2014)

This quality standard covers the provision of all aspects of cancer services for children and young people with cancer. For this quality standard, children are defined as aged 0–15 years and young people as 16–24 years, though this is not a formal upper age limit because the needs and circumstances of individuals will vary, including their need to access age-specific services.

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Children CYP Healthcare Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Immunisation Infant Mortality Licensing Planning Safeguarding seasonal mortality) Young People

Evaluation of vaccine uptake during the 2013 MMR catch-up campaign in England

By Public Health England (2014)

This report finds that in the first 3 months of 2013 there was an increase in number of cases of measles in England compared to previous years, which was most marked among 10 to 16 year-olds. A national catch-up campaign was launched in April 2013 with the objective of ensuring that 95% of children aged 10 to 16 years received at least one dose of MMR vaccine by 30 September 2013.

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Children Commissioning Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Child health in the new NHS

by the National Children’s Bureau (2014)

This report presents the results of the September 2013 independent survey of those directly involved in the commissioning, management and delivery of health and related services, and some analysis and reflections on the findings

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Good Practice Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Information sharing in the foundation years

By Foundation Years Task & Finish Group (2013)

The Government commissioned Jean Gross to lead a group of early years and health professionals to explore on-going barriers to information sharing in the foundation years and to identify examples of good practice. The report emphasizes that effective and appropriate information sharing is vital to support successful integrated working across health and local authority services. Local commissioners and practitioners are urged to consider the examples of good practice highlighted in the annex to the report.

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Children Health Improvement Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Young People

Children and young people's health benchmarking tool

By Public Health England (2013)

This framework brings together and builds on health outcomes data from the Public Health Outcomes Framework and the NHS Outcomes Framework. It responds to the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum’s recommendation that a version of these frameworks be created which highlights areas of particular relevance to improving the health outcomes of children and young people.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Public Mental Health Well-Being

Overlooked and forgotten: a review of how well children and young people's mental health is prioritised in the current commissioning landscape

By Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition (2013)

This report offers support and recommendations to health and wellbeing boards on how they can prioritise and address children and young people’s mental health. It is based on a review of 145 joint strategic needs assessment (JSNAs) and 142 joint health and wellbeing strategies (JHWSs).

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Annual figures from the national child measurement programme

By Public Health England (December 2013)

Latest annual figures from the national child measurement programme show obesity levels among four to five year old children have levelled out (to 9.3% compared with 9.5% in 2011/12), and levels in 10 to 11 year old children have stabilised (18.9% versus 19.2% in 2011/12) for the first time since the programme started.