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Integrated Care Models
Holden B, Adnan S, Watson M. Fifteen-minute consultation: Integrated child health: Part 1 – Why integrated care matters. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice Published Online First: 11 March 2026. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2025-329132
Moore Y, McLaughlin N, Watson M. Fifteen-minute consultation: Integrated child health: Part 2 – Clinical practice Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice Published Online First: 11 March 2026. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2025-329133 CHILDS used as case study
Klaber RE, Tailor D, Watson M Fifteen-minute consultation: Integrated child health: Part 3 – How to design and implement locally. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice Published Online First: 11 March 2026. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2025-329134
Pickard L, Wyllie E, Macaulay C, et al. 8417 Local child health teams increase healthcare access for children with deprivation and unmet need. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2025;110:A73-A74.
Ingrid Wolfe, Lucy Pickard, Elizabeth Cecil, Eleanor Wyllie, Florence Tydeman, Dylan Clarke, Chloe Macaulay, Stephanie Lamb, Raghu Lingam; Improving Child Health and Equity With Health System Strengthening: Case Review of UK CHILDS. Pediatrics September 2025; 156 (Supplement 1): e2025070739F. 10.1542/peds.2025-070739F
Sullivan LP, Macaulay C, Lamb S, et al 6726 The whole child: integrating CAMHS and general paediatrics within local child health teams. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2024; 109:A112. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-rcpch.163
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
Santos F, Pickard L, Macaulay C, et al 965 An examination of the cases referred to PCN child health teams in a novel integrated care network across two London boroughs. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2022;107:A53. https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/Suppl_2/A53.1.info
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
Frequent attenders
Decarli Jordan, Bourouphael Tania, Wyllie Eleanor, Pickard Lucy, Children who frequently attend the emergency department (ED): using electronic health records to identify unmet need, 25th WONCA World Conference Abstract Book, ID 2151
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
School readiness
Forman JR, Ghotane S, Wolfe I, Fraser LK. Early life exposures and school readiness: an observational cohort study using the Born in Bradford longitudinal birth cohort data. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 2026;10:e003489. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2025-003489