Evaluation of the Child Health and Wellbeing Network programmes: Healthier Together, Asthma, and Epilepsy

Descriptions

Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC) are working collaboratively with the Child Health & Wellbeing Network (CHWN) in the delivery of the Child & Young Person (CYP) Transformation Agenda, focusing on the improvement for services for CYP with long term conditions. The four workstreams include: • Healthier Together initiative • Asthma: Community asthma advisors • Epilepsy: Epilepsy Specialist Nurses (ESN) - Learning disabilities • Epilepsy: Mental Health - Child Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Evaluation of each workstream is required to assess the effectiveness and impact of the services in improving outcomes for CYP with a focus on the Core20 Plus 5 for CYP to reduce health inequalities. Evaluation outputs will be shared with the NENC ICB Healthier & Fairer committee to aid future decision making about whether the programmes should be rolled out across the NENC region and potentially beyond. Requirements to inform these decisions include clinical impact, cost-effectiveness and reduction in health inequalities. To make the most of the funding budget available, one evaluation partner will be commissioned to deliver the four separate evaluations. The commissioned evaluation partner will be responsible for working with the CHWN to fully develop the methodological protocol to deliver the evaluations. Aims of the evaluations: The Healthier Together evaluation aims to assess the impact of the Healthier Together app online consultation on reducing primary care attendances, call wait times and appropriateness of GP access. In addition, the evaluation aims to understand the impact of the Healthier Together website, mobile app and Healthier Together champions on supporting families within underserved communities in the NENC in accessing Healthier Together, reducing parental anxiety and improve confidence to make informed decisions about when and where to access the healthcare system when their child is unwell. The Asthma evaluation aims to assess the impact of the established asthma workstream on community asthma care and management in respect to prevention and post exacerbation in CYP. The Epilepsy ESN evaluation aims to assess the impact of the ESN post in supporting CYP with epilepsy, with a focus on those with LD/Autism/Complex medical needs and neurodiversity. The Epilepsy CWP evaluation aims to assess the impact of the CWP post on access to mental health screening, assessment and mental health intervention for CYP with epilepsy. Please note we are developing the specification more fully and this is all the information available at this time.