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Data needs a good story
18 March 2024
Dr Nick Wilkinson, Â鶹´«Ã½ Wales Officer reflects on his experiences of what makes ‘good’ data in his monthly blog.
Children and young people's voice
Through the Â鶹´«Ã½ &Us programme, we work with children, young people and families to improve child health.
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Worried and waiting: A review of paediatric waiting times in Wales 2024
This bilingual report, published February 2024, provides an analysis of ‘paediatric pathway’ waiting times data in Wales from 2016-2023, with a spotlight on the last year. The report contains recommendations for the Welsh Government, Health Boards and Health Education and Improvement Wales, which if...
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Patient safety podcast 4 - Involving children, young people and their families
31 January 2024
Children and young people must be central to the co-design and co-production of patient safety improvement interventions. In this episode, we hear from Dr Victoria Dublon and Dr Jane Runnacles, champions of improvement work that puts the young person and their needs first.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ publishes a summary of children and young people’s perspectives on how to tackle climate change
20 November 2023
The summary brings together the Children and Young People’s (CYP) key recommendations from the recent Â鶹´«Ã½ report, Preserving the world for future generations, and aims to provide decision makers and paediatricians with a digestible summary of our evidence.
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Preserving the world for future generations: Children and young people's perspective on how to tackle climate change
Our research report gives insight into how children and young people perceive and understand climate change.
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Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates awarded the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award 2023 by HQIP
20 June 2023
On 20 June 2023, the Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates were announced as joint winners of the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). The award is one of five Clinical Audit Heroes Awards that are announced during the 2023 Clinical Audit Awareness...
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Engaging children and young people - an introduction
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Children & Young People's engagement team work to ensure that the voice of children, young people (CYP) and families is making a difference in child health and healthcare. We actively involve CYP across the UK and support healthcare professionals to engage, to find out what CYP want for th...
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Engaging children and young people - improving communication
We have collated a number of resources and Â鶹´«Ã½ &Us project work which gives you practical tools and advice on how healthcare professionals can improve their communication with children, young people and their families. Much of this content has been created with children and young people and includ...
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Engaging children and young people - voice bank
Â鶹´«Ã½ &Us speaks to children and young people (CYP) throughout the UK to share their views and experiences of health and healthcare. These views have been collated to create a ‘Voice Bank’ containing a rich source of information on CYP ideas, concerns and expectations which is vital knowledge for he...
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Engaging children and young people - how to do it
Engaging with children and young people means that we seek out their thoughts, feelings, ideas, concerns and expectations around health and healthcare, and then work collaboratively to create a healthcare service that meets their needs. Here we provide a 'how-to' guide for how to meaningfully and ef...