At the recent meeting of the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG) group on Saturday 14th March, the group heard a presentation about a project led by Dr. Diane Sellers from Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. Diane is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner Speech & Language Therapist and Research Fellow and is part […]
Working together teaching postgraduate students how to carry out research with young people since February 2020! Read on to for a combined Blog from three of this year’s GOSH YPAG member attendees as they reflect on their annual visit in February 2026 to work with over 30 students Thank you to Aleena Lu’Lu, Betty and […]
The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG) group met on Saturday 24th January in Brighton. They heard a presentation from Patricia Velazquez-Ruta, a Nurse Practitioner at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and lead for the Little Platypus Initiative Project The initiative offers children and young people undergoing surgery the option […]
The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG) group met on Saturday 22nd November at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton. They heard a presentation by Dr. Ian Male , a Consultant Paediatrician at SCFT, on a Neurodevelopment Pathway project. The project is proposing to look at which neurodevelopmental assessment pathways improve […]
The YPAG KSS have updated their poster providing information about the group to researchers. The children and young people workshopped ideas resulting in this new design, which they hope will encourage paediatric health and social care researchers to get in touch.
At the YPAG KSS meeting in June held at the Royal Alex Children’s Hospital in Brighton, the group heard from Sharon, a Paediatric Research Nurse from University Hospitals Sussex, whose project is looking at improving care for Children and Young People admitted to hospital with Mental Health Issues. Increasing numbers of children and young people […]
Some members of the Young People’s Advisory Group, Kent Surrey & Sussex attended the NHS Sussex ‘Improving Lives: Young People’s Annual Conversation’ on Saturday 1st March, in Brighton. The event included several youth groups from across the county and involved group discussions on: Access to and experiences of GP services. Moving from children’s health services […]
Four members of the YPAG Kent, Surrey and Sussex attended the national NIHR event on 1st February 2025 to mark 10 years of progress of involving children, and young people in health and care research. The event was to celebrate how their contributions have shaped the design, development, and delivery of child-health research, and look ahead […]
At the YPAG KSS meeting in September held at the Royal Alex Children’s Hospital in Brighton, the group heard from Freya, a researcher from King’s College London, and Izzie, a Paramedic, about a study called ‘The Child CPR Study’ which aims to generate new knowledge about the experiences and needs of children and young people […]
At the YPAG KSS meeting in May held at the Royal Alex Children’s Hospital in Brighton, we were delighted to welcome some new members. The group had a presentation from Gill Middleditch a MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Community Paediatrics, based at Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust. Gill is working on a project looking at […]
