We work with health organisations to create engaging ways for young people and their parents to find out and explore their rights when using the NHS.
As a young person, understanding your healthcare rights can be really confusing and navigating the health system can feel impossible. We want to support children & young people to understand that the NHS will be there for them when they need it.
After all, what good are hospitals and services if people can't use them?
We aim to support children and young people to have an appropriate understanding of their rights as they developed from early childhood to young adulthood, and empower them to take increasing ownership of these rights.
To create a genuinely useful and engaging resource for children and young people, we began by building an evidence base. Experts from our Research Centre, along with our team of Young Researchers, travelled across the country to carry out consultations and focus groups with over 900 children, young people and parents.
Taking the personal experiences of the young people we talked to and with advice from our user group, we created a website called Get Your Rights.
You can find out more about the detailed findings which provided the foundations upon which we built Get Your Rights here.
We've also pulled together a list of information and websites that explain what your rights are, how to use the NHS and where to go for further support.