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Welcome and Background
Welcome to the National Child Health, CAMHS and Maternity Service Mapping Exercise.
2007/8 data collection exercise now closed
The 2007/8 data collection has now closed. A copy of the data submitted by the midnight on 28th February deadline has been frozen so no further changes can be made on the website to data that will be used for performance measurement by the Healthcare Commission.
New mapping website
From November 2008, the child health, CAMHS and maternity services mapping exercise will be extended to include the mapping of local authority commissioned and provided services and will be called children's services mapping. To signify this change a new website has been launched:
www.childrensmapping.org.uk
All data inputting and reporting will be through this new website. Please visit the new website to familiarise yourself with the changes. Briefing notes with further information about the coming exercise are available on the home page. The child health website will remain open but only for accessing previous year's data.
Background information
CH&MS and CAMHS mapping are commissioned by the Department of Health in partnership with the Care Services Improvement Partnership. It is run by the Durham University Mapping Team and managed by the National Children's Mapping Lead, Claire Thomson.
The mapping exercise is advised and approved by a Steering Group and Expert Reference Group made up of practitioners, managers and policy makers who provide a wide representation of agencies and disciplines in the fields of child health, CAMHS and maternity services. In addition, the exercises have the approval of the Review of Central Returns (ROCR) and Gateway at the Department of Health with the following references:
- CAMHS 2006 - ROCR/OR/016/002 - SUB204/017
- National Child Health and Maternity Services Mapping - ROCR/OR/0170.
Aims of CH&MS and CAMHS mapping
The mapping exercise aims to create an inventory of all dedicated child health services, specialist CAMHS Tier 2 to 4 services and maternity services provided in England and the investment in them. Its purpose is to:
- Support the development of the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (DH, 2004) and help provide a focus on dedicated child health, CAMHS and maternity provision
- Support the commissioning of services by providing a description of service provision
- Assist in the bid for resources for service development
- Provide comparative data on the progress in achieving service frameworks and delivery plan targets, for the range of inspectorial and supervisory bodies.
Characteristics of the exercise
The main features of the mapping exercises are:
- Internet data collection - the mapping data is collected and maintained electronically on the Internet where it can be accessed at all times
- Service information collected at the level of individual services/teams and commissioning data collected at the level of PCTs and local authorities
- Service provision linked to geography so that services and commissioning can be reported by PCT and SHA as well as NHS trust
- Annual data revision to develop information on trends as the data accumulates year on year.
CAMHS mapping was first undertaken in 2002 and CH&MS mapping was introduced in 2005. The initial mapping of these services was a very large undertaking but, now that some experience of mapping has been built up and the datasets have been established it is hoped the accuracy of the data and its use can be increased.
Many thanks to all of you for supporting the project from the National Child Health Mapping Team.
