Updated Child Health Promotion Programme

The new updated Child Health Promotion Programme (CHPP): 'Pregnancy and the first five years of life' has been launched. It builds on the NSF that was published in 2004 and is intended to provide services tailored to the individual needs of children and families, acting as a best practice guide for health and social services.

The CHPP is a valuable tool for supporting Commissioners to meet obligations on breastfeeding, obesity prevention, infant mortality and the 12-week antenatal assessment. This high quality programme will help meet these vital requirements, but also help to improve general health and well-being among children and families in our communities.

(Published March 2008, 80 pages)

Diabetes in the NHS: Commissioning and providing specialist services

Diabetes has come a long way since the publication of the National Service Framework (NSF). Self management is now recognised as the key to improved health outcomes, but people with diabetes also need the active support of organised, proactive and expert health, community and social services.

This small booklet aims to address this issue by providing details of the improved pathways that can be designed for people with diabetes, the governance issues that can be addressed by PCTs and the money the can be saved by acute trusts and commissioners, if the expertise of consultant diabetologists and the teams they work with is used to the full.

(Published September 2007, 26 pages)

Other documents or websites of interest

Children Services: Department of Health

Commissioning Children’s and Young People’s Palliative Care Services

Children’s NSF Case Studies