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Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

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GP access to immediate consultant paediatrician telephone advice - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

This page provides a best practice example for standard 1 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the GP hotline service at Wexham Park Hospital. Providing telephone communication allows GP to access advice on admission avoidance, outpatient department avoidance and...
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Facing the Future - care outside the hospital
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More resource needed or we’ll ‘burn out’ and services will become more unsafe say children’s doctors

25 April 2018
Additional resourcing of children’s health services is urgently needed as a new report highlights the daily struggle hospitals face to meet standards that provide children with high quality, safe and consistent healthcare.
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Facing the Future audit on standards in acute paediatrics and care outside hospital (2017)

Results highlighted gaps within paediatric rotas, with not enough consultants present within the hospital during times of self-identified peak activity and poor links between primary care and the hospital child health service.  You can download our report at the bottom of this page.
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Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services
Facing the Future - care outside the hospital
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Facing the Future Superhero

As a child or young person, you don't need superpowers! You have the right to be involved in decisions about your care and to be treated by the right people, at the right time, in the right place. It's all in our Facing the Future standards. Why don't you play our game, tell others about your rights...
Health policy
Engaging children and young people
Children and young people's voice
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Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services
Facing the Future - care outside the hospital
Facing the Future - emergency care
Facing the Future - ongoing heath needs