10.N. Workshop: Appraising Primary Care for children and adolescents in Europe – are we measuring the right things?

Objectives

The Models of Child Health Appraised Horizon 2020 project is tasked with appraising models of primary child health provision in the 30 EU and EEA countries, with a view to identifying the optimum. This is a task which is grounded on being able to appraise models effectively, and this workshop will explore both types of models, and how to appraise them, with a view to testing and validating the processes being developed and used in the project.

The workshop is designed to explore the question of how we best conceptualise the various existing models of primary care for this population; their component parts and their respective functions, in 30 European countries. To date most published literature has centred around comparing lead practitioner models i.e. a lead primary care paediatrician or family/general practitioner with inconsistent findings and driven by professional interest groups.

Workshop Format

The workshop will seek iteration on a sequence of topics:

• Types of Model related to Children’s Primary Care

• Approaches to Appraisal and Measurement

• Use of Business Modelling to Compare Patterns of Provision

• In country approaches to systematic measuring of quality

• Plurality of Individual measures and seeking a holistic matrix

Participants will be invited to review critically the approaches shared as being applied within the project.

Key messages:

• There is no single optimal construct of a model – different views are needed, linked to the several functions and patterns of children’s primary care.

• ‘Optimal’, ‘best’, and ‘quality’ are related but not synonymous – different measures should be applied and findings triangulated.