Partners in Paediatrics 15 th October 2009

1. Partners in Paediatrics15th October 2009 PiP’s purpose, work programme and background to the Nurses’ Forum Lesley Hines

2. What is Partners in Paediatrics? • Network of service providers & PCTs – working in collaboration • First Meeting held in November 1997 • Formed September 1998 • Membership by subscription

3. Clinicians and managers working together with the same aims Partnership of equals - activities jointly defined & pursued with joint benefit A ‘flag’ and rallying point - health care for children

4. Participating NHS Trusts Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Hospital South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust Wolverhampton City PCT Telford & Wrekin PCT Walsall PCT South Staffordshire PCT Stoke PCT University Hospital Nth Staffs Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital Birmingham Children’s Hospital East Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Burton Hospitals NHS Trust Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Funding by subscription of member Trusts

5. StatementofPurpose .. to improve the quality and accessibility of services for children across the area served by the participating Trusts…

6. Aims • Develop high quality clinical guidelines and pathways of care • Facilitate the development of clinical networks • Work with and inform commissioners on the improvement of services • Provide educational fora & undertake training & research • Promote and share good practice

7. NSFThemes • Improving services • Tackling inequality • Enhancing partnerships EmergingFinding 2.2

8. The practical challenge is how to ensure that children’s services locally are coherent in design and delivery, with good coordination, effective joint working between and across sectors and agencies, with smooth transition and in partnership with children, young people and families.” (Al Aynsley Green NSF Introduction p4)

9. PiPWork • Clinical Networks • EWTD & Service Re-Design • Education & Conferences • Guidelines & Clinical Governance • Academic Projects & Publications

10. Active Network Projects • General Paediatric Surgery • Paediatric Anaesthesia • Paediatric & Adolescent Rheumatology Network • Child Protection (CSA) • Diabetes 120 members involved in working groups

11. Why do we need Clinical Networks? • Inadequate manpower resources • Share specialist manpower skills • Equitable standards • Local Access • Sustainability of services

12. Nursing Forum: Inaugural meeting July 2008 Key challenges to be addressed: • Impact of initiatives such as Darzi review, ‘Nursing Futures, Future Nurses,’ EWTD and Modernising Nursing Careers; • The impact of mandatory training on clinical care; • The future role of all nurses – and ANPs – looking at roles they will play in the plan to deliver care ‘closer to home’; • Developing Standards – e.g. Surgery Standards

13. Terms of Reference for Forum • To provide a forum to support those nurses involved in the care of children & young people (C & YP) across the partnership area • To facilitate networking & the sharing of ideas / examples of good practice to encourage evidence-based practice • To identify & analyse service/workforce needs & to consider the mechanisms to address these • To influence national & regional initiatives for nurses working with C & YP, & to consider the implications for local areas • To recognise training & educational needs and to influence strategies to address these

14. Nurses’ Forum Workshops to date • Future Health Policy, the role & Contribution of Nursing – Liz Morgan, Dept of Health • Assessment of the ill/injured child and young person • PANDA – Paediatric Acuity & Nursing Dependency Assessment tool – Sue Chapman, Great Ormond Street Hosp • E-Learning for Health • Pandemic Flu Preparations

15. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success!” Henry Ford