My first report with RCPCH Wales🎉
⭐"I entirely support the recommendations made" Children's Commissioner for Wales
⭐"It's not very often you get reports that say this is what we think could be done to make things better" BBC Radio Wales 20.02.24 David Grundy presenter
⭐"It's very constructive and helpful" BBC Radio Wales 20.02.24, Marcus Longley, Professor of Applied Health Policy (University of South Wales)
Proud to have launched the report with the RCPCH Wales Officer, Deputies and RCPCH&US colleagues at the Senedd on Tuesday. Nearly a third of Members of the Senedd attending to hear how we can improve child health outcomes in Wales so children, young people and their families aren't left #WorriedAndWaiting.
When I started planning this report with the RCPCH team we had grand plans. We were going to cut the data in all sorts of different ways: track it across primary care, therapies, mental health and surgery, examine integrity and make various comparisons with postcode, staffing levels and across health boards. But frankly, there isn’t the data. It is not accessible and potentially not collated. A story we're all too familiar with, and why improving data quality is one of our report's recommendations.
That's not to say this report didn't find anything. It did. It found trends and shows the unsustainable pressures paediatric services are under in Wales, with thousands of children waiting, and waiting longer, for treatment.
Read the report and recommendation below👇
This week, RCPCH Wales launched a report, “Worried and Waiting: A review of paediatric waiting times in Wales”.
It details the unsustainable pressure paediatric services are under in Wales, leading to thousands of children waiting for treatment.
No one wants to wait for care, but children’s care is frequently time critical and long waits disproportionately impact vulnerable families and exacerbate health inequalities.
The report sets out recommendations to support the Welsh child health workforce provide safe, timely and effective care:
✔ expanding and investing in child health workforce,
✔ improving data quality and transparency
✔ reducing health inequalities
✔ ensuring age-appropriate care.
For more information about the report visit: https://lnkd.in/evaSGbuj
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2moHi Neva, good to hear from you- hope everything is fine