Developing primary care services for young people

The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Promotion Service and Cornwall Yout h Service have been working in partnership to facilitate the planning and p romotion of high quality attractive and relevant designated health services for young people. This partnership arose from a joint project in North Cor nwall looking at unwanted teenage pregnancies. It involved research with yo ung people about their perspective of health services in their area, and a theatre in education project with the Barbican Theatre working with primary health care teams to raise awareness about the issues relating to health c are for young people. The team have presented their work at several confere nces, it has won a NHS 50 National Award sponsored by Glaxo-Wellcome, and h as attracted much interest locally and nationally from policy makers and pr actitioners. This paper describes how the team came together the various st ages in the development and execution of the project, the outcomes and reco mmendations