Tell us about your experience of local Paediatric Assessment Units (PAU)

 

1. Has your child, or the young person you care for, ever been referred to a local Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU)? If no, please go to question 12. *

 

2. Who made the referral to the PAU?

 

3. How soon did the patient attend the PAU after a referral was made?

 

4. Which location did you attend?

 

5. Were you given a choice of locations?

 

6. If yes, why did you choose this location?

 

7. If no, if you had been given a choice then which location would you have chosen?

 

8. If no, why would you choose this location?

 

9. Do you know what condition the patient was treated for?

 

10. Were you sent home after attending the PAU?

 

11. If after attending the PAU you were not sent home, please tell us what happened next.

 

12. If you had a child or young person who needed medical attention then where would you take them in the first instance?

 

13. If you would take your child to an urgent care centre or A&E for medical attention, which location would you take them to?

 

14. Why would you choose this location?

 

15. When would you take them?