An Overview

These are exciting times for the workforce whose primary focus is meeting the needs of children, young people and their families.

The Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report 2007 (published July 2008) Tackling the Health of the Teenage Nation placed the needs of adolescents at the top of the agenda. The recently published child health strategy, Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures (DH/DCSF, February 2009) builds on Every Child Matters (2003) and the NSF for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (2004) and describes the aspiration to make England the best place in the world to grow up in by 2020. Central to the changes and developments needed to realise this ambition will be the polarity and contestability of current service provision, promoting a redesign of services.

The Lancaster Model provides the structures, frameworks and models to guide and support practice, interventions and services through the process of redesign. The implementation of a sustainable Health Need Assessment Model, provides a cyclical approach of staged contacts to evidence and utilise the skills and competencies of the existing workforce, whilst developing and directing the future workforce to meet the identified needs of 0-19 year olds.

Kath Lancaster

Qualifications - MSc Advanced Nursing Practice, BSc (Hons), SCPHN, DIP, RN, EN

I qualified as an enrolled Nurse in 1982 and worked 6 years in general nursing. I became a Registered Nurse in 1995 whilst specialising in Paediatrics. I have since worked out in the Community, both as a school nurse practitioner, CPT and a visionary leader, managing changes and developing new ways of working. More recently, strategic working for the Department of Health has enabled me to direct and influence community nursing nationally, whilst maintaining strong links at practice level. I presently own and direct "Kath Lancaster Nursing Consultancy Ltd", with contracts across the UK and recognition at a global level for the creation of models and frameworks to support workforce redesign and development.