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RCGP Adolescent Health GroupJane H Roberts, Chair
} Young people’s health traditionally seen as ‘cinderella’ area
} Clinicians, academics, policy makers, increasingly describing the importance of adolescence as a key stage in the life course
} Commissioning may well act as catalyst Are you involved with your local CCG?Do they have a commissioning ‘intention’ re
CYP?
} Sawyer et al, (2012) Lancet: 379; 1630-40
Pre-conceptua
l factors
Early child hood Puberty Adult hood
Social determinants of health; risk and
protective factors
Health –related behaviours and
health outcomes
} Do you consider young people to be a separate social group?
} Does your practice offer anything different for the 12-20 year olds?
} How confident do you feel about consulting with young people?
} Do you consider young people to be a separate social group
} Or do you see them as patients on a life’s journey?
} Tension between seeing YP as different and with particular needs or seeing them as moving through a life course
} Levels of knowledge?} Levels of confidence?} Time pressures?} Practice organization?} Degree of professional experience?} Educational experience? } Specific subject areas?
} Adult anxiety can inhibit talking with young people
} Seeing young people as ‘different’ can often distance us
} Active listening, curiosity and compassion sit at the heart of good adolescent care
} Psychosocial and physical health intertwined} You do not need to be an ‘expert’} Core skills of good general practice are key } Practice systems underpin good care