Child & Family Health
As the UK’s largest specialist provider of community health services for children, HCRG Care Group works with Local Authorities, ICBs and NHS England to move the system forward at an agile pace: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital and from treatment to prevention.
Child & Family Health
Giving children the best start possible by achieving three radical shifts in children’s health
Responsibility for children’s services sits across both local authorities and the NHS, but these three shifts articulated in the NHS 10 year plan have long aligned with our work, even before they were put into writing.
Together we’re bringing timely prevention and intervention to ensure children enter and participate in education supported by empowered families, making good lifestyle choices, and are minimally disadvantaged by their background.
For more, speak to:
Robert Flack
Regional Director
Having undertaken leadership roles in the commercial, not for profit, social enterprise and NHS sectors, Robert now works to continuously improve our teams, relationships and services at HCRG Care Group.
Hospital to Community
We structure our services so children and young people avoid hospitals where it’s safe to do so, and are able to access consistently high quality services locally, even when services prioritise those in greatest need.
Analogue to Digital
We bring a digital-first culture that’s practised at early adoption and fast systems change, offering a digital front door for service users and ensuring integrated records across providers, as well as technology systems that actually talk to one another.
Sickness to Prevention
We work with early years schemes to ensure access to high quality care and education is easy and early identification of issues increases.
How we’re making change happen fast
Our culture of clinically-backed innovation and early adoption has given us a reputation for investing in the piloting and proving care models before they appear in national policy.
This reputation is most renowned in our Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where our model’s results in moving from hospital to community were studied on behalf of the Department for Education, so the findings could help shape other family hubs across the country – and it’s led to local authorities and ICBs in Lancashire, Wiltshire, BANES, Slough, and Surrey all adopting similar models with us.
We’re continuing to share practices in our national network and are scaling the most successful models widely so more children are able to feel safe and heard and supported to meet their goals, while commissioners can be confident they’ll see change for the good of the community.
How to work with us
If you’re a commissioner looking to make change happen in your communities, our delivery model is a green light for your ambitions. Our agile, joined-up and co-designed ways of working ensure you don’t need to compromise quality to build an efficient system – even saving up to 10% in the process.
Whether you’re looking to procure or simply explore the ways we can create outcomes even on reduced budgets we want to talk.
Healthy child programme (0-19)
We work with Local Authorities to support children from before they’re born until 19, with a focus on active outreach, education and prevention.
Our Quality Promise is holistic and ensures we not only deliver high quality services but also address the wider economic, social, and environmental challenges faced by your communities.
- Health Visiting
- School Nursing
- Family Hubs
Intensive Health Visiting (as part of our own proven programme or alternatively we can deliver the Family Nurse Partnership).
Community services
We work with ICBs to join up and streamline children and young people’s services, ensuring those with additional needs receive personalised care that results in improved outcomes and reduced health inequalities.
We also support other organisations such as foundation trusts to deliver on these contracts to ICBs.
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Community Paediatrics
- ASD Assessment & Support
- Wheelchair Services
- Bladder & Bowel Service
- Looked After Children Support
- Neurodevelopmental Pathway
School age immunisations
We work with NHS England to deliver immunisations for children at school and elsewhere in the community. As a national organisation, we can deliver this at an efficiency of scale while responding to the local needs of the population.