Adults will soon have the chance to vote for the party they think will give them the best National Health Service, but children will not have this privilege. Perhaps that's why they appear to be getting such a raw deal from health services - their special health needs are often not acknowledged in a system where there is a shortage of paediatric doctors and nurses, and a lack of people willing to speaking up for children.
A hard-hitting report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in July last year, entitled 'Who is speaking for children and adolescents and for their health at the policy level?' says that basic principles in the health care of children are being ignored. It reveals that:
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