What is the Core20PLUS5 Programme?
Lincolnshire NHS would like to get children and young people across Lincolnshire with diabetes together to give them a chance to share their opinions and feedback on the service they have received.
This is crucial to ensuring the services they receive are improved and issues they face are addressed.
Voluntary Centre Services and Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service have been brought in to facilitate groups of young people to be able to speak up about their diabetes.
The approach, which initially focused on healthcare inequalities experienced by adults, has now been adapted to apply to children and young people. The information below outlines the Core20PLUS5 approach for children and young people.
You may also follow this link to download the Core20PLUS5 infographic.
What Are We Doing to Support Core20PLUS5?
We are going to be putting on a variety of activity sessions across Lincolnshire to allow young people with diabetes to come together to share their thoughts while doing something fun.
Activities can include trampolining, ten pin bowling and many other activities for young people living with diabetes in Lincolnshire.
Where possible we will aim to cover all or a significant part of the cost for the activity. All we would like in return is for you to share your thoughts and experiences of having diabetes.
How Can the Core20PLUS5 Programme Help Me?
Core20PLUS5 is a national NHS England approach to support the reduction of health inequalities at both national and system level.
You can locate more information on the Core20PLUS5 Programme by following this link to the NHS website.
The approach defines a target population cohort and identifies five focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement:
- Asthma
Address over reliance on reliever medications; and decrease the number of asthma attacks. - Diabetes
Increase access to real-time continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps across the most deprived quintiles and from ethnic minority backgrounds; and increase proportion of those with Type 2 diabetes receiving recommended NICE care processes. - Epilepsy
Increase access to epilepsy specialist nurses and ensure access in the first year of care for those with a learning disability or autism. - Oral health
Tooth extractions due to decay for children admitted as inpatients in hospital, aged 10 years and under. - Mental health
Improve access rates to children and young people’s mental health services for 0-17 year old; for certain ethnic groups, age, gender and deprivation.
Further Information
If you would like to get involved or come to any of the activity days planned, please get in touch with Aaron Hodgson using the details provided
All days are also posted on Voluntary Centre Services Eventbrite page, just search “diabetes”.
Supported by NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
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