Under proposals set out by Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority (SHA) for reforming the work of the NHS in the region, it is looking to create specialist primary care teams. These could include health visitors, midwives, school nurses, paediatric therapists and GPs.
The document, Healthy Ambitions, is the SHA's response to health minister Lord Darzi's review of the NHS. The document's publication coincided with Lord Darzi's latest report Leading Local Change, which said NHS reform should be locally-led.
Jean Hawkins, strategic lead for children and families at the Yorkshire and Humber SHA, said: "We wanted to focus on having good strong primary care teams with advanced nurses, community nursing teams and GPs with an expertise in children."
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