{
  "abstract": "West London Children’s Healthcare (WLCH) formally was launched in April 2022, bringing together children’s services across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust under a single leadership structure, accountable for all aspects of operational, quality, safety and financial performance. From its inception, the partnership extended to academia, through a close working relationship with Imperial College London; and to other providers of child health services across Northwest London. The need for such an alliance arose because there are significant health challenges and inequalities in health status and life expectancy in this region (figure 1). The mission is to drive continuous improvements in health and well-being; engaging with children, young people and their families to deliver outstanding care, to create and share new knowledge and to use expertise to influence sustainable change.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust",
        "West London Children's Healthcare, London, UK",
        "Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College, London, UK",
        "Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health (PaeCH), Imperial College, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Elizabeth Whittaker"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, UK",
        "Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Sejal Saglani"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Research collaboration to benefit child health: PaeCH of an idea",
  "uid": "eb5c8920-41c2-55da-98df-e5b982b33ccf"
}