Safety recommendation
It is recommended that NHS England and NHS Improvement ensure that transition guidance, pathways or performance measures require structured conversations to take place with the young person transitioning to assess their readiness, develop their understanding of their condition and empower them to ask questions. NHS England and NHS Improvement must then ensure that the effectiveness of this is robustly evaluated.
Response:
- NHS England will work jointly with NHS Improvement to promote a co-ordinated approach to transitions across agencies and to develop existing and new tools, protocols and resources for transition processes. This will primarily be taken forward through NHS Improvement’s Transitions Collaborative which will work with trusts to improve transitions in both physical and mental health services.
- The Transitions Collaborative will promote the implementation of Transitions Champions in trusts, particularly in Adult Mental Health Services, with support from NHS England.
- NHS England will use existing adult and CYP clinical networks to support improvements in local delivery of transition processes.
Timescale: already underway.
Response received on 1 October 2018 and updated on 12 March 2019.