Scottish Executive

Response Sheet

This consultation exercise is intended to help shape the provision of health care and other services for children and young people in Scotland. This response paper should be read in conjunction with the report Delivering a Healthy Future – An Action Framework for Children and Young People’s Health in Scotland.

You need not comment on all of the content of the document and can focus on those areas in which you have a particular interest.

Responding to this consultation paper

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Friday 7 July 2006.

Handling your response

We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly. All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Executive are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public (see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library by end July 2006. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE Library on 0131 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision. The draft Action Framework will be adjusted to reflect comments received and the intention is that it will be published in the autumn of 2006 as guidance from the Scottish Executive.

Comments and complaints

If you have any queries or comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to: Mary Sloan, The Child and Maternal Health Unit, Scottish Executive Health Department, Ground Rear, St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh EH1 3DG. E-mail: mary.sloan@scotland.gsi.gov.uk. If you would like this response sheet in another format or language, please contact 244 3581.

Please complete the details on the Respondent Information Form below. This will help ensure we handle your response appropriately.

Your Consultation Response

DELIVERING A HEALTHY FUTURE – AN ACTION FRAMEWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH IN SCOTLAND

If you wish to comment on the Action Framework please use this response sheet and use the consultation document. If you want to comment on particular sections of the Action Framework please progress to the page listed below and make your comments.

SECTION 1 – THE BASIS FOR CHANGE

Why Children and Young People are Different .

The National Policy Context for Children and Young People in Scotland .

Building a Health Service Fit for the Future – Health Services Fit for Children and Young People .

SECTION 2 - DELIVERING CHANGE

Section 2 and 3 of the Action Framework focuses on the existing targets, suggested key milestones for measuring progress and actions that are being taken forward. We are particularly interested in these areas and your views on what has been proposed to deliver improvements in health and health outcomes.

Health Improvement

Providing Care Locally

Emergency Care

Hospital Services

Specialist Services

Mental Health Services

Children with Complex Needs

Remote and Rural Care

SECTION 3 - SUPPORTING CHANGE

Involving Children, Young People and their Carers

Workforce

Education, Training and Development

Planning and Commissioning

Models of Care

Performance Management – Quality Improvement

WHY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT

A number of areas have been identified in the Action Framework where the case is made for having a different approach for children and young people compared to the one currently taken for adult services. If you have any comments to make on this section of the Action Framework please put them in the appropriate box below:

THE NATIONAL POLICY CONTEXT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCOTLAND

The national policy context for children and young people has been built firmly on the key areas listed below. If you have any comments to make on this section of the Action Framework please put them in the appropriate box below:

HEALTH SERVICES FIT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

This section related to the issues that Professor Sir David Kerr identified, as they apply to children and young people, in his review of the NHS in Scotland, Building a Health Service Fit for the Future. If you have any comments to make on this section of the Action Framework please put them in the appropriate box below