The new NHS strategy, Getting the Right Start: the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, promises to make sweeping changes to health services for children and young people.
As well as overhauling hospital services in order to reflect the needs of a young person's age group, services such as education support will also be introduced. And all the recommendations will be mandatory.
Seeds for the framework were planted in November 2000 when the NHS put together the Children's Taskforce to take forward the NHS's national plan and improve the lives and health of young people and children in the system. This was stepped up in July 2001, after the Kennedy report into baby heart deaths at Bristol Royal Infirmary found that no one person was responsible for children's health services at any level. As a result, the NHS appointed Professor Al Ainsley-Green as national clinical director for children. He is also chairman of the Children's Taskforce.
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