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If a family can walk out of the hospital having lost their child and say that they couldn't have been better supported, then I can go home and feel OK.

— Hilary Cass

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Someone will bring in a baby because the baby has green poo, but grandma could have been able to say 'that's normal'.

Half the kids in A&E outpatients need not be in hospital and, if you come to hospital, you are more likely to be admitted.

Children are well one minute and very sick the next. So you have much less time than you have with adults.

It is really difficult to spot a sick child.

Because of the toxicity of the debate, [children have] often been bypassed by local services who've been really nervous about seeing them. So rather than doing the things that they would do for other young people with depression or anxiety, or perhaps undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorder, they’ve tended to pass them straight on to the Gids service.

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