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The National Youth Agency: Comment - Spending a decade in hospital

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Richard McKie, national programme manager for health at The National Youth Agency, revisits a successful hospital-based youth project.

Like anything else, good youth work stands the test of time, and is sustainable because it fills a real need in a cost-effective way. That's certainly true in the case of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Youth Service, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year amidst great excitement, a bit of partying and the release of a commemorative DVD showing just what it is they get up to.

Finding my way to the centre to investigate took me past X-ray rooms, renal units and outpatient blocks, making me nervous about what I would find there. Young people trailing expensive medical equipment in their wake? Gowns not jeans? Depression and disease?

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