Prioritising Child Health

<p>Prioritisation exists throughout healthcare. Difficult and controversial decisions are frequently made at national, local and service level, as well as on an individual basis. However, attention has generally been focused away from the practitioners and service managers who make day-to-day prioritising decisions in order to manage their workloads and deliver front-line services.</p><p>Focusing on child health contexts, <em>Prioritising Child Health</em> opens up the debate on prioritisation by individuals and explores the issues surrounding their decisions. Grounded in the reality of everyday life, it encourages the reader to make their own judgements about how to prioritise. It will appeal to professionals working in child health, including speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, as well as nurses, doctors and health visitors. </p> <p><strong>Part 1: Introduction</strong> 1. Why Write about Prioritisation? <strong>Part 2: Prioritisation in Action</strong> 2. Katherine 3. James 4. Thomas 5. A Day in the Life of Children’s Palliative Care Specialist Nurse 6. Prioritising Paediatric Physiotherapy Services for Children with Profound Multiple Learning Difficulties 7. Triage in Speech and Language Therapy 8. The Least First Framework <strong>Part 3: Perspectives from Theory</strong> 9. Thinking: Where to Start 10. Professional Judgment and Decision Making 11. The View from the "Dismal Science" 12. Prioritisation. An Educationist’s Perspective <strong>Part 4: Reflections on Prioritization</strong> 13. Some Answers Questioned 14. Conclusions </p>