Urgent shake up of children’s unscheduled care needed to tackle UK’s poor child health outcomes

Healthcare professionals are warning that unless there is an overhaul of unscheduled care services, there is a risk that growing demand will result in poorer outcomes for children. Facing the Future: Together for Child Health says that to deal with these pressures, and to improve child health outcomes, not only do unscheduled care services need more investment, but there also needs to be a shake-up of how services are designed, with more children being cared for outside the hospital, in the community and closer to their home. The new set of standards produced by the Royal College of Paediatrics and