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Partners in Paediatrics (PiP) is a group of child health care providers
covering the area bounded by the regional centres of Birmingham,
Manchester, Liverpool and Nottingham and a total population of about
2 million (approximately 400,000 child population). Seventeen NHS Trusts
with both acute and community Trusts & PCTs involved.
Purpose and Objectives
PiP was initiated in 1997 in response to a shared sense of concern about
current and future provision of children's services, and a willingness to explore
whether a collaborative approach to service planning and provision might help
to address some of the problems.
The purpose of the partnership is to improve the quality and
accessibility of services for children across the areas served by the
participating providers.
History
A first step was to pool information about the state of the full range of services
provided within the partnership area. This initial review identified a short list of
services, which were agreed as shared priorities for improvement.
After a year of informal working to explore where the benefits of a collaborative
approach might best be realised for each of these services, a conference was
held to appraise Trust Chief Executives of progress, and to set out the case for
continued collaboration. PiP is now formally constituted with a business plan and
a working group for each project identified in the plan.
PiP has a budget raised by subscription, paid by member Trusts. Although only
subscribing Trusts have a place on the Steering Group, PiPs working groups and
its end of year conferences are open to clinicians and managers from all Trusts
within the geographical area.
Now in its 10th year PiP has accumulated a great amount of knowledge and expertise
which can be used to identlfy current service problems. We are entering an era of close
co-operation with commissioners in order to achieve the NSF standards for children.
The support from representitives of member Trusts has enabled PiP to accomplish its
hard work and increase the benefits to children.
