The Teen Health Talk is a communication tool for GPs to use during primary care consultations with young people. If you are interested in using this tool in your practice, please contact us. View this short video for more information
Making your health facility young people friendly is a free online training course primarily for practice administration staff. In this course a range of topics around providing care for and working with young people and their families will be discussed.
This is a video by NHS South East London ICS about a system in which all children receive expert care closer to home.
CHILDS Integrated Care Models
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Macaulay C, Wyllie E, Wolfe I, et al 6883 Impact of poverty and ethnicity on asthma symptoms and outcomes in children. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2024; 109:A114. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-rcpch.166
Cecil E, Forman J, Newham J, et al Investigating a novel population health management system to increase access to healthcare for children: a nested cross-sectional study within a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Quality & Safety Published Online First: 11 July 2024. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017223
Lingam R, Hu N, Cecil E, et al Changing contexts of child health: an assessment of unmet physical, psychological and social needs of children with common chronic childhood illness. Archives of Disease in Childhood Published Online First: 21 February 2024. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2023-326766
Macaulay C, Pickard L, Lamb S, et al 695 The impact of local child health team triage on health service use: the CHILDS model of care. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2023; 108:A121. https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/Suppl_2/A121.1
Wolfe, I., Forman, J., Cecil, E., Newham, J., Hu, N., Satherley, R. et al. Effect of the Children and Young People's Health Partnership model of paediatric integrated care on health service use and child health outcomes: a pragmatic two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 2023; Vol 7, Issue 12; 830-843. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00216-X
Satherley, RM., Lingam, R., Green, J. et al. Integrated health Services for Children: a qualitative study of family perspectives. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 167 (2021).https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06141-9
Satherley, RM, Wolfe, I & Lingam, R 2021, 'Experiences of healthcare for mothers of children with ongoing illness, living in deprived neighbourhoods health and place', Health and Place, vol. 71, 102661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102661
Newham, JJ, Forman, J, Heys, M, Cousens, S, Lemer, C, Elsherbiny, M, Satherley, RM, Lingam, R & Wolfe, I 2019, 'Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP) Evelina London model of care: protocol for an opportunistic cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) to assess child health outcomes, healthcare quality and health service use', BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. e027301. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027301
CYPHP team, Satherley, R-M, Green, J, Sevdalis, N, Newham, JJ, Elsherbiny, M, Forman, J, Wolfe, I & Lingam, R 2019, 'The Children and Young People's Health Partnership Evelina London Model of Care: process evaluation protocol', BMJ open, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. e027302. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027302
Wolfe, I, Lemer, C & Cass, H 2016, 'Integrated care: A solution for improving children's health?', Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-304442
Wolfe I, Thompson M, Gill P, Tamburlini G, Blair M, van den Bruel A, Ehrich J, Pettoello-Mantovani M, Janson S, Karanikolos M, McKee M. Health services for children in western Europe. Lancet. 2013 Apr 6;381(9873):1224-34. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62085-6. Epub 2013 Mar 27. PMID: 23541056.
Children with complex needs
Swapnil Ghotane, Bethan Page, Rohana Ramachandran, Ingrid Wolfe, Lorna Katharine Fraser - Qualitative evaluation of a hospital-inpatient service for children with medical complexity: BMJ Paediatrics Open 2025;9:e003101. https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/9/1/e003101
Ghotane S, Hirve R, Forman J, et al Integrated care for children and young people with special health and care needs: a systematic review. Archives of Disease in Childhood Published Online First: 30 July 2024. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2024-326905
Evidence synthesis
Wolfe, I, Satherley, RM, Scotney, E, Newham, J & Lingam, R 2020, 'Integrated Care Models and Child Health: A Meta-analysis', Pediatrics, vol. 145, no. 1, e20183747. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-3747
Health economic studies
Soley-Bori, M., Forman, J., Cecil, E., Newham, J., Lingam, R., Wolfe, I., et al Cost-effectiveness of the Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP) model of integrated care versus enhanced usual care: analysis of a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial in South London. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 2024; Vol 42: 100917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100917
Kelly, C.B., Soley-Bori, M., Lingam, R. et al. Mapping PedsQL™ scores to CHU9D utility weights for children with chronic conditions in a multi-ethnic and deprived metropolitan population. Qual Life Res 32, 1909–1923 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03359-4
Soley-Bori M, Lingam R, Satherley R, et al Children and Young People’s Health Partnership Evelina London Model of Care: economic evaluation protocol of a complex system change. BMJ Open 2021;11:e047085. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047085