Summary
SCOTLAND'S health and the health of the children of Scotland need joined-up thinking and integration of working practices in our child health services. The model of care recommendations outlined by the consultant paediatricians of Argyll and Clyde are a restatement of a consistent line of advice since the Scottish Home and Health Department, Brotherston (1973) report, Towards an Integrated Child Health Service. In the intervening 32 years we have had countless expensive "reformations" of NHS management structures and much political meddling and muddling.
Fortunately, there has been a core of the well-informed who have ensured some progress towards the aim of all nurses, doctors and professions allied to medicine, through integrated training and practice, to help safeguard the health of children whether they be at home, at school or in hospital. Many services such as child psychiatry and paediatric medicine are now based largely outwith hospital and use hospital in-patient specialist services only when it is in the best interests of the child and family to do so.See the full content of this document
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Consistent Advice
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