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Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian, Saturday 21 March 2009
Children in Britain are being failed by a culture that gives them low priority, exposing them to poor healthcare, knife crime and sexually transmitted diseases, according to the outgoing head of the Healthcare Commission.
Sir Ian Kennedy, appointed to lead the watchdog after his 2001 report into child deaths after heart surgery in Bristol, said that despite the regulatory body's successes, progress on the care of children had not been as great as he would have liked. "What is getting in the way of doing what almost all right-minded people would think was a fundamental social obligation to its next generation? I wish I knew the answer."
From hospital care to protection from violence and guidance on drinking, children were not getting the help they needed, he said. "I find it an unhappy indictment of the society we live in that we pay so little attention when we could pay more to those who obviously deserve our care." Finger-pointing and blame would lead nowhere, he said.
Two Healthcare Commission reports into the care of children in hospital, one published a week ago, found serious inadequacies despite the high priority the commission has tried to give children over the last five years. Many staff were not trained to spot abuse, give pain relief or resuscitate a child who had stopped breathing.
A further report into Birmingham children's hospital published yesterday raised concerns about poor standards and delays in treating sick children.
read it all here...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/21/healthcare-commission-report-children
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Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian, Saturday 21 March 2009
Children in Britain are being failed by a culture that gives them low priority, exposing them to poor healthcare, knife crime and sexually transmitted diseases, according to the outgoing head of the Healthcare Commission.
Sir Ian Kennedy, appointed to lead the watchdog after his 2001 report into child deaths after heart surgery in Bristol, said that despite the regulatory body's successes, progress on the care of children had not been as great as he would have liked. "What is getting in the way of doing what almost all right-minded people would think was a fundamental social obligation to its next generation? I wish I knew the answer."
From hospital care to protection from violence and guidance on drinking, children were not getting the help they needed, he said. "I find it an unhappy indictment of the society we live in that we pay so little attention when we could pay more to those who obviously deserve our care." Finger-pointing and blame would lead nowhere, he said.
Two Healthcare Commission reports into the care of children in hospital, one published a week ago, found serious inadequacies despite the high priority the commission has tried to give children over the last five years. Many staff were not trained to spot abuse, give pain relief or resuscitate a child who had stopped breathing.
A further report into Birmingham children's hospital published yesterday raised concerns about poor standards and delays in treating sick children.
read it all here...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/21/healthcare-commission-report-children