Children and Young People

Our aim is to make Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent one of the very best places to enjoy a healthy childhood, knowing that great care will always be there for our children when they need it.

Focusing on the health and wellbeing of young people reaps a huge dividend in terms of their health later in life and we want to help children, with support from their parents and guardians, to prioritise their health and have the tools to stay well, physically, and mentally.

For those children who do need more intensive care and support, we want to ensure that this is of the highest quality and that those families really feel looked after. We want to achieve good quality outcomes wherever possible, from maternity care through to cancer treatment, and support those young people with life long and even life limiting conditions.

To meet the needs of our children and young people requires great organisation based on good plans that are well executed. We need to use our limited resources well, train our workforce to the best possible standard, harness the power of technology and most importantly, never stop listening to children and young people about what they think is important.