Dr Mathew Mathai has been a Consultant Paediatrician at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2008. He has worked at the ‘coal face’ of acute general paediatrics in Yorkshire since 2001. He is a founding member of the Paediatric Ambulatory Care Network -a system wide health and care learning partnership developing paediatric ambulatory (out of hospital) care across West Yorkshire and Harrogate (WY&H). Fundamental to the network are co-creation of new care models with children, young people and families; system integration and collaboration. Mathew is a member of the WY&H Health and Care Partnership’s Children and Families Board.