Children health behaviour engagement

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One of Healthwatch Herefordshire’s top three priorities for 2018-19 is children and young People’s mental health. Healthwatch Herefordshire’s crucial crew work forms part of our engagement towards this priority. Crucial Crew is a schools safety day coordinated by the west Mercia police every year for all year six children in the county. Crucial Crew runs for two weeks allowing all the children in their last year of primary school a chance to attend for a day and take part in all ten workshops. This is a total of 1,770 10-11 year olds across Herefordshire.

The findings suggested less than half of the children were aware of minor injuries units and what to use them for, particularly schools in the city. The children who live in the city are most likely to use A&E as there is no minor injuries unit in Hereford. Some of the issues like seizures, chest pain, breathing issues and choking needed more explanation every time we carried out the workshop as children didn’t recognise the serious nature of the emergency situations. When talking through this exercise with the children, some schools had provided first aid training to the children but many hadn’t. Many children said they would use NHS111 for various things, including being unsure what was wrong or what to do.

The recommendation within the report inform more first aid training in schools, recognising emergency situations e.g. seizures, chest pain, severe blood loss, breathing issues and choking. It was apparent children didn’t realise how dangerous these situations could be. Raise awareness in schools of NHS Choices guidance.

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Local Healthwatch
Healthwatch Herefordshire
Publication date
Date evidence capture began
Date evidence capture finished
Type of report
Report
Key themes
Access to services
Written information, guidance and publicity
Public consultation and engagement

Methodology and approach

Was the work undertaken in partnership with another organisation?
No
Primary research method used
Engagement event
Survey
If an Enter and View methodology was applied, was the visit announced or unannounced?
N/A

Details of health and care services included in the report

Details of health and care services included in the report
Pharmacy
Dentist
General Practice (GP)
NHS 111
Urgent primary care, including Urgent Treatment Centres, walk-in care, out of hours GP services, minor injury and treatment centres
Other
Emergency department (inc A&E)
Name of service provider
East and North Hertfordshire CCG

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Does this report feature carers?
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