Every Disabled Child Matters

Transforming services for disabled children, children with palliative care needs and their families is a high priority for NHS West Kent. This cannot be achieved without working closely with disabled children, their parents / carers, professionals and key partners such as Kent County Council.

The Department of Health, as a result of the Parliamentary Hearings on Services for Disabled Children and their Families and the subsequent publication of Aiming High for Disabled Children: Better Support for Families and Better Care: Better Lives, has asked all Primary Care Trusts in partnership with their Local Authority to transform services providing the following: 

Please go to downloadable documents to view NHS West Kent’s Autumn Statement, that describes work that it has done since the publication of Aiming High for Disabled Children: Better Support for Families and Better Care: Better Lives and what it will be doing to achieve its ambition and priorities.

If you would like more information on how you can get involved, please contact the Directorate of Commissioning, Child Health, working for NHS West Kent and NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent on 01622 221018.