Healthy Children
Dundee Healthy Living Initiative
Dundee Community Health Partnership (CHP)’s Child and Family Health Forum is an operational group of the CHP, with representation from across the Single Delivery Unit of NHS Tayside. |
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The group ensures leadership and direction to service planning and implementation, by bringing together clinical and managerial staff who deliver care to children, young people & their families in Dundee.
Group members are drawn from universal services, which include GPs and Midwives and Health Visitors, right through to specialised services such as Allied Health Professionals, Mental Health Teams & those who provide in-patient care.
The focus of the group is to deliver on the objectives the ‘Plan for Dundee’s Children’ to ensure that care is continuously improved for children, young people and their families who use our NHS Services. It is important that we do this in partnership, putting children, young people and their families at the heart of any decision-making. This is reflected in ‘Delivering for Health’ (2006), which sets out the direction of travel for the NHS in Scotland.
The group meets two- monthly and is chaired by Gail Young Clinical Development Manager for Dundee CHP.The group feeds into the pan-Tayside Child Health Strategy Group and into Dundee’s Integrated Management Group. Representation on the group ensures strong connections with NHS Tayside’s Child Protection Action group as well as the multi agency Dundee Children and Young Persons Protection Committee. The group also feeds in to the CHP’s own Management Team, thereby ensuring that services for children young people and their families remain high on the agenda.
From time to time the group requires to commission subgroups to deliver on specific pieces of work. The recent roll out of Hall4 (Health for all Children 4th Edition) is one example. This work was chaired by Carol Foote, on behalf of the Dundee CHP Child & Family Health Forum
We are always striving to listen to children, young people and their families to ensure that every child’s right to safe, nurtured, achieving, active, respected, responsible and included is optimised by achieving their best possible health outcomes. |
