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Socioeconomic barriers preventing children and young people living with long-term health conditions from achieving optimal outcomes
  1. Joanne C Blair1,
  2. Cath Aitken2,
  3. John Smith2,
  4. Atrayee Ghatak3,
  5. Caroline Ann Jones4,
  6. Rebecca Thursfield5,
  7. Louise Oni4,6
  1. 1 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Liverpool, UK
  2. 2 Health Junction, UK Community interest company No. 08057979, Liverpool, UK
  3. 3 Department of General Paediatrics, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Liverpool, UK
  4. 4 Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Liverpool, UK
  5. 5 Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Liverpool, UK
  6. 6 Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Louise Oni, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK; louise.oni{at}liverpool.ac.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325671

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    Children and young people living with a chronic illness (CI) and faced with poverty are less likely to benefit from medical advances than their more affluent peers.1–3 Clinical outcomes are poorer,1–4 setting these children on a trajectory of lifelong disadvantage. Inequality may be due to a variety of factors: some require action at a political level, while others could be addressed closer to home.

    In the Liverpool City Region, more than 80 000 children and young people are growing up in poverty. We undertook a scoping exercise in collaboration with Health Junction, an independent, not-for-profit community interest company. The aim was to gather the views of parents and healthcare professionals (HCPs) involved in managing children with CI living in poverty to identify …

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    • Contributors All authors have contributed to the concept, design and delivery of this manuscript. JCB led in writing the manuscript and LO has supervised.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.