Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012, Our Children Deserve Better: Prevention Pays Annex 2 page 1

Annex 2

Acknowledgements

Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012, Our Children Deserve Better: Prevention Pays Annex 2 page 2

Acknowledgements

The production of this report has been an open process, calling on the good will and expertise of people across government (within Department of Health, Department for Education, Department for Communities and Local and Government, HM Treasury, Department for Work and Pensions, Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Cabinet Office). I am fortunate to have received assistance from a great variety of other organisations and many individuals, only some of whom are named here.

This report would not have happened without Leonora Weil, Jason Strelitz and Karen Todd who have provided invaluable editorial input and Orla Murphy for her project management. My thanks in particular go to my Editor in Chief, Claire Lemer. Claire has helmed the creation of this report and I congratulate her on a fantastic achievement.

AuthorsI would like to start by sincerely thanking the authors of each chapter for making this report possible: Jane Barlow, Clare Blackburn, Mitch Blair, Fiona Brooks, Ronny Cheung, Peter Fonagy, Ron Gray, Dougal Hargreaves, Lorraine Khan, Claire Lemer, Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Murphy, RAND Europe (in particular Celine Miani, Emma Pitchforth, Marie-Louise Henham, Ellen Nolte and Eleanor Winpenny), Janet Read, Doug Simkiss, Nick Spencer, Jason Strelitz, Russell Viner and Leonora Weil.

Workshop Attendees I would also like to thank all the experts who gave their time and expertise to participate in the various workshops that informed this report: Cheryl Adams, Janice Allister, Maggie Atkinson, Mitch Blair, Christine Cassell, Jacqueline Cornish, Chris Cuthbert, Lindsay Davies, Eustace de Souza, Angela Donkin, Ann Hoskins, Simon Howard, Howard Jasper, Raphael Kelvin, Stuart Logan, Enver Solomon, Caroline Twichett and Ingrid Wolfe.

Other ContributorsI thank Jennifer Rubin of RAND Europe for her advice and support in the creation of Chapter 3. I am grateful to David Buck, Charlotte Hall, Joanna Hay, Michael Kelly and Jayne Taylor for commenting on early versions of Chapter 3.

I would like send my thanks to the team behind the Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for Children and Young People: to Sir Muir Gray, Philip DaSilva, Erica Ison and their colleagues at NHS Right Care for their vision in developing the Atlas concept, and to Ronny Cheung, Helen Duncan, Helen Smith and colleagues at the Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network at Public Health England for creating the current edition of the Atlas, and ensuring the continuation of this important document.

I thank the many organisations and individuals who sent in case studies, which help to bring the report alive. In particular, I thank Karen Horridge.

I would also like to thank the Support and Challenge Group who helped to guide report content: Maggie Atkinson, Mitch

Blair, Raphael Kelvin, Christine Lenehan, Ian Lewis, Stuart Logan and Ian Wacogne.

My thanks too to all those who met and discussed this report during the various production stages: Nick Adkins, Graham Allen, Jessica Allen, Louis Appleby, Janet Atherton, Sue Bailey, Gillian Baird, Alison Beedie, David Behan, Alan Bell, Mark Bellis, Viv Bennett, Rhian Beynon, Simon Blake, Chris Bonell, Catherine Calderwood, Steve Clarke, Peter Brocklehurst, David Buck, Jo Butcher, Hilary Cass, David Cox, Richard Douglas, Naomi Eisenstadt, Glenn Everett, Leon Feinstein, Steve Field, Kamini Gadhok, Peter Goldblatt, Flora Goldhill, Nicola Golding, Karen Gowler, Sir Muir Gray, Ann Gross, Lisa Harker, Angela Hart, John Harvey, Juno Haycock, Joe Hayman, Nick Hicks, Baroness Sheila Hollins, Simon Howard, Paul Hughes, Eric Kelly, Sir Bruce Keogh, Peter Knight, Natasha Kocsis, Andrea Ledsom, Gillian Leng, Nick Lessof, Theresa Marteau, Anthony May, Christine McGuire, Claire Mellor, Heather Mellows, Simon Mitchell, Kate Morris, John Newton, Karen Norfolk, Carey Oppenheim, Neil Paterson, Claire Phillips, Jon Rouse, Clare Sandling, Jasvinder Sanghera, Richard Sangster, Stephen Scott, Sheila Shribman, Ranj Singh, Fiona Smith, Terence Stephenson, Ailsa Swarbrick, Sue Sylvester, Alison Tedstone, Karen Turner, Jane Verity, Tom Walley, Pauline Watts, Miranda Wolpert and Edward Wozniak.

In particular, I would like to thank Sir Michael Rutter for his help with the manuscript.

I would also like to acknowledge with thanks the many people of all ages involved in allowing us to present the voice of Children and Young People: all parents interviewed and the young people and teams from YoungMinds, the RCPCH Youth Advisory Panel and Kids Company including Veline L’Esperance, Bharti Mepani, Kevin Davis and Anna Butterworth for their involvement in designing and running focus groups and workshops. Many thanks also to Helen Hogan, Dalya Marks, Kath Evans, Louca-Mai Brady, Gila Sacks, Amanda Allard, Andrew Fellowes, Chris Morris and the Channel 4 News Team.

I give special thanks to Kids Company for allowing us to use their artwork and for arranging a workshop to hear children’s voices.

ProductionAs with all I do, my Private Office have provided invaluable support. In particular, I thank Becky Cansdale my Assistant Private Secretary.

My thanks go to Alix McCulloch at Williams Lea and Khemindra Nadarajah, Paul Allard and Allan Wright of The Stationery Office for their project management and creative services, and all the Xerox staff based at the Department of Health Reprographics service.