Healthy Child Programme
Summary
- Primary Care services
- Child Health organisations
- Community services
- School Nursing services
- Maternity services
- Health Visiting services
- Screening Laboratories
- All organisations providing NHS England commissioned immunisation services for children
- Care records
- Child
- Interoperability
- Key care information
- Community health
- GP / Primary care
- Maternity
- School
Contact Point
Documentation
A standard for child health records to support the Healthy Child Programme and its prevention agenda. This innovative standard helps everyone involved in caring for children to share information using standardised paperless digital records. It aims to streamline the sharing of critical health information, ultimately enhancing the efficiency and quality of care for children across various health services.
About this standardThe Healthy Child Record Standard outlines what information on screening tests, immunisations, and developmental milestones should be accessible to make sure that children receive appropriate care. The goal is that everyone involved in a child’s care, including parents, will in the future have secure access to a standardised set of paperless, digital child health records.
Whilst the focus has been the Healthy Child Programme, the information models developed may support recording for other purposes within a child health record. The standard also provides a foundation for digital personal child health records, using new infrastructure and messaging to provide interoperability for digital personal child health records (DPCHR). The aim being to supplement or replace paper Redbooks, making it easier for families to hold online records for their children and access them via smartphones, laptops and tablets.
ScopeThe Healthy Child Record standard covers, at a summary level, the scope of the Healthy Child Programme and the Personal Child Health Record. This standard applies to the following key groups and organisations that provide health care and services to children:
- Primary Care services
- Child Health organisations
- Community services
- School Nursing services
- Maternity services
- Health Visiting services
- Screening Laboratories
- All organisations providing NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned immunisation services for children.
The following areas are out of scope and have not been considered as a part of this project:
- Maternal drugs in pregnancy (which may affect the baby)
- Concealed pregnancies
- Care plans
- Other birth related procedures and issues (water births, induction, delayed cord clamping, still births)