caa a22 4500 397576838 CHVBK 20180308164858.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199606 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024482 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024482 Planning and commissioning of health services for children and young people [Elektronische Daten] [Elspeth Webb, Jane Naish, Aiden MacFarlane] Background Local audits in England and Wales performed in 1994 showed that child health commissioning was not being given priority. We were concerned that child health commissioning was in addition not performed in a childcentred way, with the best interests of children to the fore. Method A survey of health authorities and boards was performed, to investigate child health commissioning in the United Kingdom. A questionnaire was sent to all directors of public health medicine in post in November 1994. The main outcome measures were child health experience within commissions and the context of children's services within the wider commissioning process. Results A total of 120 (92%) of 129 authorities replied. Sixty-nine (58 per cent) had a named person with responsibility for child health services, of whom 7 (5 percent) worked exclusively within this area, 42 (32 per cent) had experience within clinical child health, and 19 (15 percent) had postgraduate qualifications in child health. One hundred and five (81 per cent) authorities replied to a question on the comprehensiveness of the commissioning process; of these, 45 (34 per cent) planned and commissioned children's services in their entirety and 60 (46 per cent) planned and commissioned children's services in the context of other service areas. A majority did not plan and commission acute and community services together. Conclusion Many authorities had no named person with responsibility for a child health strategy. Of those that did, most named persons had inadequate experience and few had postgraduate qualifications in child hearth. Most authorities had no comprehensive planning mechanisms for children's services. In consequence, most commissions were failing to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Health services nationallicence children nationallicence commissioning nationallicence Webb Elspeth University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff CF4 OXN aut Naish Jane Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square, London W1M 0AB aut MacFarlane Aiden Department of Public Health Medicine, Oxfordshire Health Manor House, Headley Way, Headington OX3 9DZ aut Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 18/2(1996-06), 217-220 1741-3842 18:2<217 1996 18 pubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024482 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024482 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Webb Elspeth University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff CF4 OXN aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Naish Jane Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square, London W1M 0AB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacFarlane Aiden Department of Public Health Medicine, Oxfordshire Health Manor House, Headley Way, Headington OX3 9DZ aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 18/2(1996-06), 217-220 1741-3842 18:2<217 1996 18 pubmed Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford