Impact

2016 NICE Guidance on Transition. Our paper (Farre et al on’ Developmentally Appropriate Healthcare’) was the only research to be cited in the actual guidance. Page 15.

 

2018 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Standards, Standard 6.

 “Service planners ensure there is a designated person within the child health service who is responsible for ensuring that developmentally appropriate transitional care is provided and coordinated by both child and adult services.”

 

2018 NHS England Commissioning for transition to adult services for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).

Page 6. The report highlights three of our studies which involve young people.

 

2018 Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) Audit for Transition. Addressing child to adult transition in national clinical audit – A guide.

Appendix 2:  Standards and guidelines for child to adult transition; Page 3, Guidelines from Research Projects – The Transition Research Programme. Our 7 key implications are listed.

 

2019 NHS 10-year Long Term Plan.

Transition is mentioned five times in the Long Term Plan on pages 46, 51, 52, 55 and 119.

We had been invited by Dr Cornish, National Clinical Director for Children, Young People and Transition to Adulthood, NHS England to submit to her proposals for improving Transition, based on our research evidence. Dr Cornish then said that the NIHR Transition Research helped inform the Transition content for Children and Young People in the NHS Long Term Plan. By 2028, she added, NHS England hopes to move towards service models for young people offering person-centred and age-appropriate care for mental and physical health needs, rather than an ‘arbitrary transition’ to adult services based only on age.