TO SERVICE SPECIFICATION. PROVISION OF SERVICES TO CHILDREN Aims and objectives of service This specification annex applies to all children’s services and outlines generic standards and outcomes that would fundamental to all services. The generic aspects of care: The Care of Children in Hospital (HSC 1998/238) requires that: • Children are admitted to hospital only if the care they require cannot be as well provided at home, in a day clinic or on a day basis in hospital. • Children requiring admission to hospital are provided with a high standard of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to facilitate speedy recovery and minimize complications and mortality. • Families with children have easy access to hospital facilities for children without needing to travel significantly further than to other similar amenities. • Children are discharged from hospital as soon as socially and clinically appropriate and full support provided for subsequent home or day care. • Good child health care is shared with parents/carers and they are closely involved in the care of their children at all times unless, exceptionally, this is not in the best interest of the child; Accommodation is provided for them to remain with their children overnight if they so wish. Service description/care pathway • All paediatric specialised services have a component of primary, secondary, tertiary and even quaternary elements. • The efficient and effective delivery of services requires children to receive their care as close to home as possible dependent on the phase of their disease. • Services should therefore be organised and delivered through “integrated pathways of care” (National Service Framework for children, young people and maternity services Department of Health and Department for Education and Skills, London 2004) Interdependencies with other services All services will comply with Commissioning Safe and Sustainable Specialised Paediatric Services: A Framework of Critical Inter-Dependencies – Department of Health Imaging All services will be supported by a three tier imaging network (‘Delivering quality imaging services for children’ DOH 13732 March2010). Within the network; • It will be clearly defined which imaging test or interventional procedure can be performed and reported at each site. • Robust procedures will be in place for image transfer for review by a specialist radiologist, these will be supported by appropriate contractual and information governance arrangements. • Robust arrangements will be in ...
TO SERVICE SPECIFICATION. PROVISION OF SERVICES TO CHILDREN Aims and objectives of service This specification annex applies to all children’s services and outlines generic standards and outcomes that would fundamental to all services. The generic aspects of care: The Care of Children in Hospital (Health Service Circular (HSC) 1998/238) requires that: • Children are admitted to hospital only if the care they require cannot be as well provided at home, in a day clinic or on a day basis in hospital. • Children requiring admission to hospital are provided with a high standard of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to facilitate speedy recovery and minimise complications and mortality. • Families with children have easy access to hospital facilities for children without needing to travel significantly further than to other similar amenities. • Children are discharged from hospital as soon as socially and clinically appropriate and full support provided for subsequent home or day care. • Good child health care is shared with parents/carers and they are closely involved in the care of their children at all times unless, exceptionally, this is not in the best interest of the child; accommodation is provided for them to remain with their children overnight if they so wish.
TO SERVICE SPECIFICATION. Person specifications of specialists comprising multi-disciplinary team (MDT) Bariatric Surgeons The surgeons in the multidisciplinary team should hold GMC (General Medical Council) registration, be on the specialist register for general surgery and have undertaken a relevant supervised training programme and have specialist experience in bariatric surgery. See IFSO guidelines appendix 2. They should be members of The British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMMS).
TO SERVICE SPECIFICATION. PROVISION OF SERVICES TO CHILDREN Aims and objectives of service This specification annex applies to all children’s services and outlines generic standards and outcomes that would fundamental to all services. The generic aspects of care: The Care of Children in Hospital (Health Service Circular 1998/238) requires that: • Children are admitted to hospital only if the care they require cannot be as well provided at home, in a day clinic or on a day basis in hospital. • Children requiring admission to hospital are provided with a high standard of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to facilitate speedy recovery and minimise complications and mortality. • Families with children have easy access to hospital facilities for children without needing to travel significantly further than to other similar amenities. • Children are discharged from hospital as soon as socially and clinically appropriate and full support provided for subsequent home or day care. • Good child health care is shared with parents/carers and they are closely involved in the care of their children at all times unless, exceptionally, this is not in the best interest of the child; accommodation is provided for them to remain with their children overnight if they so wish. Service description/care pathway All paediatric specialised services have a component of primary, secondary, tertiary and even quaternary elements. The efficient and effective delivery of services requires children to receive their care as close to home as possible dependent on the phase of their disease. Services should therefore be organised and delivered through “integrated pathways of care” (National Service Framework for children, young people and maternity services (Department of Health & Department for Education and Skills, London 2004) Interdependencies with other services All services will comply with Commissioning Safe and
