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Bedfordshire Luton Children’s Health: A Platform for Families
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Screenshot of the BedsLutonChildrensHealth homepage including topic finder tool. Added graphics of confetti and party poppers
Introducing Bedfordshire Children's Health the new online NHS resource for parents and carers. Designed with local families, 0 to 19 services and other local NHS community children’s services to be a go-to resource for children and young people's health advice.
Using a collaborative approach based on need and evidence the platform focuses on:
Easy access to health information – with a family focused design, information is quick to access and easy to use on a phone, tablet or laptop. Accessibility has been prioritised to ensure information can be translated, downloaded and adapted to suit a family’s reading needs.
A local resource with local services - seamless linking to local resources such as the local offers, parent carer forums, family hubs, healthier together BLMK and partner NHS services. There are also dedicated service pages where professionals can find the most up to date contact details and referral forms, guidance.
Evidence based topics for our families’ diverse needs - offering a mixture of general and specialist NHS advice for families with children and young people. Covering many topics including:
Behaviour, emotions and mental health
Child development and growing up
With a mixture of original content and linking to local information, Bedfordshire Luton Children’s Health is a resource supporting and connecting local services.
Built on the foundation of the great work of our local teams, this new online resource combines all the online offers previously provided on the Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust website.
How professionals and local partners can help
Supporting the campaign
As our promotional campaign launches over the next few weeks, we would appreciate any support from colleagues and partners. There will be a social media campaign and any shares, likes and comments would be very helpful. There are also template materials to help spread the word:
- A template article and bulletins for any external newsletters you create for local families.
- A poster you can easily print out
- Template messages for internal and professional updates
Collaboration and partnership working
This is just the launch, there is still lots exciting work to come to continue developing the platform. There are also lots of opportunities to collaborate and ensure seamless linking between local resources. We are looking forward to working with our fantastic local colleagues. Please just contact the Health Hub.
