Dudley Strategy for Tackling Health Inequalities 2010-15

DCS have been commissioned to provide tissue viability services and we lookforward to developing this new service within Dudley.A Health Visitor is seconded to the Zone for four hours a week to look at the healthneeds of young people who are substance misusers. All young people seen willhave a health plan developed for them.The Youth Offending Nurse is working some additional hours to support the FamilyIntervention Project. The project offers intense support packages to children andfamilies where there are particular issues related to offending behaviour and ismanaged within the Youth Offending Service.Recruitment has taken place for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to workone day a week in the Youth Offending Team, this is a new initiative.The Paediatric Asthma and Allergy Clinic has just commenced funded by theQueen‟s Nursing Institute and the NHS West Midlands Fund for Innovation. This willoffer an accessible service closer to home.The Speech and Language Team (SALT) service employs a bilingual co- worker, andwe also use Language Line (as well as Applied Language Solutions (ALS)). Thismeans that clients can have the service explained to them and appointments made ina language they understand, which means they can consent and commit totreatment. They then come along and have an interpreter via ALS when they come totheir appointments.SALT also prioritise looked after children, and has targeted services for hard to reachchildren.188