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CoLab: improving care for children with medical complexity through partnership and innovation
- Dr Mary SalamaConsultant paediatrician at Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Key points
- CoLab is a free partnership of people looking at how to improve care for children with medical complexity.
- Children with medical complexity are a vulnerable group and high healthcare users in both community and acute settings.
- Organisations are invited to an open mic session, and a dragon's den with experienced parent carers is hoped for.
https://www.colabpartnership.org.uk/
Dr Mary Salama, consultant paediatrician at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, introduces CoLab—a partnership initiative dedicated to improving care for children with medical complexity. These children represent a vulnerable group and are high users of healthcare services in both community and acute settings. CoLab aims to connect professionals, carers, and families to share ideas, learn from each other, and collaboratively develop new approaches to care. Dr Salama highlights the free, open nature of the initiative and invites all interested parties to participate in open mic sessions and upcoming events, including a “dragon’s den” where experienced parent carers will provide feedback on new ideas. She encourages attendees to join the initiative, share their insights, and help drive meaningful improvements for children with complex medical needs. This interview took place at the RCPCH conference 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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So, I'd like to talk to you about CoLab. CoLab is a partnership. It's a space. It's an offer. It's free. It is a group of people looking at how we can improve care for children with medical complexity.
These children are a vulnerable group. They are high healthcare users within our settings, both community and acute settings. And actually, what we want to do is link people together to see how we can improve care for them.
I've got this QR code on the back here and some tips and we are inviting you to an open mic session as an organisation. So come share your ideas, learn about new ideas and we'll hopefully be arranging a dragon's den with parents, experienced parent carers, to be able to input to you the ideas that we're putting forward to them. So this is step one. Please join us. It'd be lovely to have you on board.
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Dr Mary Salama. “CoLab: improving care for children with medical complexity through partnership and innovation.” The Paediatric Video Journal, 23 June 2025. https://paediatricvj.com/videos/colab-improving-care-for-children-with-medical-complexity-salama/
This interview is educational content intended for healthcare professionals and is not medical advice. Views expressed are those of the speaker. © The Paediatric Video Journal. All rights reserved.