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Members of MOCHA have been extremely active at conferences in the past few weeks. Dr Austin Warters presented work on the policy and organisational challenges in Europe of Integration of health and social care for children with complex health conditions at the International Health Policy Conference held in the London School of Economics & Political…

MOCHA has recently returned from two very productive days at the Medical Informatics Europe conference in Manchester, UK. Three presentations were given by members of the MOCHA team. Professor Michael Rigby presented two papers on Electronic Records and the differences in how they are used in Europe. Towards Safe and Efficient Child Primary Care –…

Professor Mitch Blair has been invited to speak at the 5th Community Social Pediatrics Symposium in Montreal Canada on the 25th and 26th May 2017. The theme of the symposium is Children’s vulnerabilities: understanding and addressing health inequalities. Professor Blair will speak alongside Dr Gilles Julien, Professor Gerry McHale and Dr Melanie Berry at the…

We are delighted that the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project will be contributing the next event in the Working Group of the Quality of Childhood series in the European Parliament (QoC). The presentation will be given by Professor Michael Rigby and Dr Denise Alexander, the deputy leader, and research coordinator of the MOCHA project. Entitled…

MOCHA is delighted to have all three papers we submitted to the European Health Management Annual Conference accepted for presentation. The topics covered will be Child Migrant Health Policy; E-Health Policy for Children; and Measurement of the Strength of Children’s Primary Care. The meeting will be held at Bocconi University, Milan in June 2017

In October 2017 the prestigious International Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare (ISQua) global conference will be held in London. Pressure for inclusion in the programme was very strong. In the face of this, our DIPEx collegaues, who have been interviewing children and young people about their experiences of health care as part of…

Dr. Maria Brenner, leader of WP2 on Complex Care, has been invited by the Paediatric Nurses Association of Europe to speak at their meeting in Naples on April 28th 2017 on MOCHA, and in particular on the work on services to children with complex needs. This is a marvellous opportunity to bring MOCHA to the…

In March, we will welcome two new researchers to the MOCHA team. Rebecca McHugh will be working with Professor Maria Brenner and Dr Austin Warters on our work into the social care interface with primary care. Keisha Taylor will be working with Dr Stine Lundstroem Kamionka and Professor Maria Brenner on long term mental health…

The International Conference on Integrated Care is a significant European and World event. This year it will be held in Dublin on 8-10 May. MOCHA is delighted to report that our Work Package 2 research on Complex Care for Children has a full workshop accepted for the programme.  Led by Dr. Austin Warters, our social…

MOCHA will provide a key presentation in the Quality of Childhood series in the European Parliament on Tuesday 11 April, organised by the Alliance for Childhood European Network Group and hosted by Finnish MEP Hannu Takkula. Details to follow.