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Work Package 1 held an extremely productive workshop in Amsterdam on the 15th December, 2015 to discuss the question “What is a Model?”. A crucial concept in the MOCHA project is to establish the different meanings of a ‘model’ of health care for children and young people. There are a number of interpretations in the…

The first MOCHA meeting was successfully held in London on 20th and 21st October, in the St Bride Foundation in the heart of London’s City. The first day saw each Work package group meet to discuss the forthcoming work, and for many researchers to meet each other for the first time. Productive discussions were held…

The MOCHA scientific work has now begun in earnest, and across the European Union our country agents are spreading the word about the importance of children’s health models, and the right of every child to access the best health care, and achieve optimum health. Dr Indre Butienė is the country agent for Lithuania, from the…

MOCHA has recently welcomed two new research staff Dr Grit Kuhne and Ms Sapfo Lignou, both will be based in London, UK. Dr Grit Kühne will start at Imperial College London, working on the use of Electronic Records to enable safe and efficient models of child health care. Dr Kühne has considerable experience of working…

On 1st and 2nd October 2015, Dr Maria Brenner will represent MOCHA at the meeting of the coordinating committee of the European Association of Children in Hospital (EACH) in Stockholm, Sweden.

On the 20th and 21st October, the first meeting of all partners in the MOCHA project will take place in London.

Professor Mitch Blair and Professor Michael Rigby from the Paediatric Division of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial, together with European colleagues, have been awarded a large grant by the European Commission…