The Child Health Information Team (CHIT) was established within ISD Scotland in 1999 to provide a focus for information on child health and children's health services.

The team is responsible for the exploitation of data collected through the Child Health Systems Programme (CHSP) during routine child health surveillance, immunisations and additional support needs assessments. CHIT supports the CHSP and NHS Scotland by providing information to monitor public health and support planning and delivery of children's health services at a national and local level.

Although the team's main focus has been on child health surveillance, they also have access to a wide range of other child health related data including childhood hospital activity and morbidity statistics. The team also provide an information request service through which any interested parties can request specific analysis.
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The members of the CHIT team are:

Child Health Information Team Manager:

Judith Tait - 0131 275 6833

Email - NSS.isdchildhealth@nhs.net

Information Analysts

Ruth Gordon - 0131 275 6335
Claire Clark  - 0131 275 6145
Claire Nolan  - 0131 275 6235
Jennifer Weir - 0131 275 6882
Daniel Adams - 0131 275 6868
Heather Graveson - 0131 275 7626

 

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NEWSLETTERS

From March 2008, CHIT has contributed to the Woman and Children's Health Information Programme (WCHIP) newsletter.

Previous Newsletters - copies of quarterly newsletters produced by CHIT since December 2001 (including health briefings produced between November 1999 and March 2001).

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PROJECTS

The team are involved in various projects in addition to our routine reporting and information request service. For further information on these, and on their progress, please visit our  CHIT projects page.