Greater Manchester Children and Young People Network Meeting

Freefall to Parachute: Enabling safe transitions for adolescents and young adults with long-term conditions.

Friday 26^th September 2025, 13:00-16:00 (12:15-13:00 for networking and lunch)

Venue: The British Muslim Heritage Centre, College Road, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8BP

Overview

This Children and Young People (CYP) Network meeting considers the evidence base for supporting children and young people with long-term conditions through a transition process that enables safe transfer from paediatric to adult healthcare services. It will review the current national and local policy and practice, exploring the challenges of working with adolescents and young adults and avoiding disengagement with healthcare services after transfer. It will consider examples of where transition and transfer are done well, and how existing good practice can be adopted and adapted for other settings.

Aims

• To influence the way that adolescent and young adult healthcare is delivered in Greater Manchester, with a particular focus on the transition process and transfer from paediatric to adult services.
• Gain commitment from stakeholders to take forward key actions that will contribute to a better experience of healthcare transition and transfer for adolescent and young adults.

Objectives

1. Identify challenges and barriers and develop solutions to support safe transition within the context of the three shifts identified in the NHS Ten-year Plan:
   • Sickness to prevention
   • Analogue to digital
   • Hospital to community
2. Share examples of practice and case studies where adolescents and young adults have successfully transferred over to adult services.
3. Understand what successful transfer looks like.
4. Bringing together key stakeholders in paediatric and adult services including commissioners, clinicians, finance, primary care, mental health, GMCA, education, youth workers, parents/carers, adolescents and young adults.
5. To highlight the impact of not doing transition well –Case study
6. Identify learning and generic principles from transition in long-term conditions services that can be applied to other settings.

Questions about this event?

Name: Afia Ali

Email: afia.ali@nhs.net

Telephone: 07702420052