The Children and Young People's Health Policy Influencing Group (HPIG) has published a policy briefing on implementing the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
HPIG welcomed the government’s Ten Year Health Plan and its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.
However, this plan is only the first stage, and its success will depend on how its policies are turned into action.
Our latest briefing shows that we need a robust action plan to prioritise babies, children and young people in the health system.
It highlights nine key areas for action including tackling health inequalities, building a dedicated child health workforce strategy, strengthening prevention and early intervention, and embedding children’s mental health in neighbourhood health models (a neighbourhood health model is a new way of organising services that has been introduced by the government with the intention of bringing care closer to home).
Now is the time to turn ambition into action.
Read HPIG's policy briefing on implementing the NHS 10 Year Health Plan (PDF)