The National Service Framework for Children,

Young People and Maternity Services

•Drive up quality

•Reduce variations in service delivery

•Help deliver The NHS Plan, Building for the Future

Purpose of National Service Frameworks (NSFs):

Strategic context of NSFs – Strategic context of NSFs – national quality standards national quality standards will be:will be:

Set by NICE, SCIE and NSFs

National Minimum Standards for Care

Delivered locally by clinical governance underpinned by professional self regulation

Monitored by CHI, SSIW & Joint Review, NHS & LASS Performance Assessment Frameworks

NSFs will:NSFs will:

• Set national standards and define service models

• Put in place programmes to support implementation

• Establish performance measures that will indicate progress within agreed time scales

NSF for Children - developed NSF for Children - developed

as a partnership between:as a partnership between:

• Social care

• Health

• Close links to education, voluntary sector and other stakeholders (including parents/ carers, children & young people)

Consultation:

• Disabled children - NCH/ Barnardos

• Children in special circumstances - Funky Dragon/ Dynamix

• Questionnaires to secondary schools

• Parents and carers - CaF/ NCT - Fostering Network

• Professional stakeholders

Children’s NSF - Children’s NSF -

overarching aim:overarching aim:

“All children and young people achieve optimum health and well being and are supported in fulfilling their potential.”

Services for children & young

people should be:

Children’s NSF - Scope:

• All children & young people from pre-conception to 18th birthday for whom NHS Wales and local social services authorities have a responsibility

• Special consideration for transition management beyond 18th birthday for those receiving support services

Children’s NSF- Method of Approach - 7

modules:• Acute and chronic illness or injury

Chair: Dr Huw Jenkins (Director of Healthcare Services for Children and Young People)

• Improving health & well being of all children & young peopleChair: Prof. Laurence Moore

• Disabled children & young peopleChair: Joe Howsam

• Children & young people in special circumstancesChair: Jane Stacey

• Mental health & psychological well beingChair: Alison Cowell

• MaternityChair: Cathy Dowling

• MedicinesChair: Rowena McArtney

Supporting groups:

• Workforce Development group

• Performance Development Group

• Communication Strategy Group

Children’s NSF - Template for

Standards

• Aim

• Standard

• Rationale/ evidence base

• Interventions and service models

• Milestones for service delivery

• Exemplars using care pathways

• Performance/ outcome measures

Process for development of

Children’s NSF:

Delivery of the Children’s NSF

needs:• Ambitious but realistic programmes

• Recognition that change requires time if it is to be sustainable

• Considered as an evolving process

• Determined and effective approach to reshaping clinical and social work practice

• A commitment to leadership - within and between agencies, local communities, patients, service users and their carers

The National Service Framework for Children,

Young People and Maternity Services

www.wales.nhs.uk/nsf