We’ve spent a decade developing and testing our Child Health Integrated Learning and Delivery System or CHILDS Framework approach. It is effective, delivers high quality care, reduces costs, and reduces inequalities.
The Child Health Integrated Learning and Delivery System (CHILDS) approach provides care for a child’s physical health, and mental and emotional wellbeing.
THE CLINICAL MODEL is integrated care for physical and mental health in the context of family, community, and social conditions.
POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT tools and methods enable delivery of the clinical model to achieve impact at individual and population levels.
A STRENGTHENED LEARNING HEALTH SYSTEM provides the foundation for the framework and enables continuous learning and improved outcomes for children.
The CHILDS Framework approach works at all levels to achieve a better system that:
- Reverses the ‘inverse care law’ and gives proportionately greater access to health care for children that need it the most. The ‘inverse care law’ means people who most need health care are least likely to receive it.
- Proactively seeks out children and their families using a smart approach to data that already exists within the NHS information system;
- Strengthens the health system that enables care delivery, including financing tools, technology, advanced analytics, workforce training, and shared governance mechanisms;
- Takes into account the wide range of social, cultural and environmental factors that influence a child's health and wellbeing, connecting and supporting across the system for a more holistic approach to health;
- Raises the profile of children, their health and wellbeing in the national consciousness and among policy-makers.
