Children “Let us go down to the front door of us hospital“, A top doctor has warned, as a leading doctor How to set children for children A&E Services can improve.
Experts from the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said that two out of five (40 percent) children do not need to live there as their needs have been classified as “non-essential”.
But Family Still going to A&E because they feel that they do not have to turn anywhere else.
RCPCH said that the “stretched” system “does not have enough ability to meet demand”.
Children are one of the most frequent users of immediate and emergency care services and the presence of A&E among children has increased from 5.4 million in 2018/19 to 6.3 million in 2024/25.
But despite this, according to the college, the focus and investment to improve the system is largely focused on adult services.
RCPCH President, Professor Steve Turner said that the children are “second -rate citizens in the eyes of NHS funding”.
There is a lack of space, staffing and infrastructure to meet the growing needs of children in many emergency departments, the college said.
Many attempts have been made to try and ensure that children have been highlighted at the right time at the right time, right at the right time “at the right time” at the right time that children will often be taken along with another part of the system “after a failed encounter”.
As a result, the children “often get stuck in the wrong parts of the system and are delayed”, RCPCH warned that it set new emergency care standards of how care should be taken and distributed.
The standard includes many topics highlighted:
- A call for staff levels is an estimated number of patients and a decrease in variation in pediatric emergency medical advisors across the country.
- Adolescent health issues within emergency departments focused focusing.
- New information about redirect, growth and emergency department’s crowd helps emergency departments to deal with increasing demand.
- Importance of appropriate options for participation in pediatric emergency departments including GP surgery and immediate treatment centers.
Prof. Turner said: “The way people use the emergency department have changed, and especially many people use the emergency department in the society where they first go to their GP.
“Therefore we have made statements that encourage the entire system to ensure that the right care is provided to the right child, the right place, the right time.
“Keeping in mind that 40 percent and 50 percent of the emergency departments between children and young people do not have an emergency, urgent issue. This is just that they have not found anywhere else.”
He said: “Health-seeking behavior has changed at home—The parents have become a lot of risk, so the parents are not happy to wait a bit, they put the child in the car and went straight to the emergency department.
“The second thing is that the public message is out there – ‘If your child has it, it or it, you need to worry”.
“The other thing we are seeing and listening to a lot, parents suggest that they cannot make an appointment with GP, either in hours or hours. GPS says they have capacity, but there is a perception that there is nowhere to go there, and when it is at three o’clock on Sunday afternoon, you have to go elsewhere.”
He said that in England, NHS 111 “lives on safe side” and would send people to A&E, which “increases footfall”.
Meanwhile, a lot of children come to the hospital as more complex cases, often with many long -term conditions.
He said, “We see so many children coming to the emergency department and parents,” I am really sorry. I know that I should not be here, but there was nowhere to go to me. “
Professor Turner said: “Children are 25 percent of the population, and they get 11 percent of the healthcare.
“Children are constantly, frequent, frequent, wherever you are in the UK, they are second-class citizens at the eyes of NHS funding-they are either forgotten and health services are putting plans together, or they are added to the side with it.”
He said: “I will give an example of Glasgow – in Glasgow, adult A&E footfall is 100,000 per year. Pediatric footfall, as it is the only place for care in Glasgow, 70,000 – so it is 70 percent of the charge, and he got less than 50 per workforce.
“So, this is just … unrighteousness. We are letting our children down at the front door of our hospitals.”
He went into a statement: “Children and youth have the presence of the most unnecessary emergency department of any group.
“This avoidable footfall is essentially congested in congestion and bottlenecks in emergency departments.
“The purpose of these revised standards is to support the pediatric workforce so that each child can get safe, kind and timely care at the right place – no difference.”
The President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Ian Higinson said: “Most of the pediatric emergency care is provided in general emergency departments in the UK – about a quarter (23 percent) of our patients are children.
“Standards of this nature are important to ensure that children are considered equally and properly when our adult patients affect the problems so much attention.”