What is it about?
We aimed to identify pragmatic changes made to services provision for Children and Young people (CYP) with EBNDIDs and help disseminate examples of best practice among CCH Clinicians, while preparing for future pandemic lockdowns. We carried out a literature review about the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare services provided for children and adolescent with ADHD from several databases including Pubmed, PMC, CINAHL and Embase from inception to Dec 2020.
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Why is it important?
The pandemic corona virus outbreak is having an impact on the lives of every member of the society with lockdown measures to limit the virus spreading through Schools shutting down, limited contact with family and friends, as well as social and leisure activities severely curtailed. This also necessitated unavoidable changes to various healthcare services provision worldwide.
Perspectives
The pandemic has significantly impacted on routine service provision for new referral s to CCH clinics and for the existing patients. Discontinuation of medical treatment necessitated by health service disruptions should be avoided during the future pandemic lockdowns to avoid serious detrimental effects of escalating challenging behaviour among CYP with EBNID, stressful parent-child and intra-sibling relationships and exacerbation of family disruptions.
Dr Michael O Ogundele
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Postgraduate Medical Centre
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This page is a summary of: 263 Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the configuration and implementation of services for children and young people with Neurodevelopmental disorders in the UK, April 2021, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjpo-2021-rcpch.147.
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