Time to Shine: Development of a new clinical model for a school health service: A practice development case study

In the autumn of 2021, a project was commissioned by the chief nursing officer of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH). The aim was to review the existing school health provision across all six boroughs where school health was delivered, to propose a revised clinical model to meet the needs of the service, to ensure the voice of children and young people was incorporated and to ensure wide staff involvement in the development of the future model. At the end of the project a new skill mix clinical model, based on a demand and capacity tool, was agreed. A new approach to case conference attendance was introduced, a complexity tool was developed to support the allocation of staff to schools, training requirements for community school staff nurses were identified and provided via the in-house electronic learning system and a children and young people's forum was established.