About Us
At Baker Baker Health, we specialise in providing high-quality medical assessments for Children in Care and their Carers.
With a focus on comprehensive care, we aim to deliver timely, thorough and expert medical assessments that help vulnerable children to recover and thrive to reach their full potential.
Welcome to Baker Baker Health
This video will give you an introduction to who we are and our passion for providing the best for Children in Care.
Our Founder:
Dr Chris Hewer has over a decade of experience delivering Initial Health Assesments and has held senior regional and national leadership roles in Children in Care health including:
- Former Named Doctor for Children in Care
- CoramBAAF Health Advisory Committee member
- Medical Advisor for the Permanency Team
- Author of the published GP-led model in Adoption & Fostering
- Childrens Safeguarding lead at inner city GP practice
For 7 years, Dr Hewer led the services offering Initial Health Assessments (IHAs) and Prospective Carer Reports, achieving 95% compliance with the mandatory 20 working day IHA timeframe (excluding factors outside our control)*.
* Only 5% of non-compliance with statutory IHA deadlines was attributable to staff capacity or appointment availability. The remaining delays were due to factors outside the service’s control, such as late receipt of social care paperwork, the need for consecutive appointments, children not being brought, or cancellations (Gloucestershire ICB, 2023).
Delivered through Rosebank Health
Baker Baker Health is delivered through Rosebank Health, an established multi-site GP partnership with extensive experience delivering NHS commissioned services across Gloucestershire.
This provides:
- Established NHS governance infrastructure
- Experienced administrative support
- Robust clinical systems
- Organisational resilience and scalability
Baker Baker Health combines this infrastructure with specialist Children in Care expertise to deliver a high quality, flexible IHA service.
Specialist expertise backed by established NHS infrastructure
Our Services:
Baker Baker Health are now offering our these specialist services to other areas within the UK, including:
- Initial Health Assessments (IHAs) for children entering care
- Adult Health Reports (AH) Part C medical examinations for carers, using records from the carers' GPs
- Adoption Medical Reports, summarising health information and providing insights on a carer’s ability to support young people, prepared for the Social Services Panel.
Why Choose Baker Baker Health?
- Holistic, child-focused high quality assessments
- GP-initiated treatments
- Improved access to Community Paediatricians
- High compliance with mandatory timelines
- Cost-effective solutions
- Flexibility and adaptability to work with local health teams
- Experienced and expert GPs
- Supervision and peer reviewed
- Flexible, bespoke solutions, tailored to meet your needs - from a one-stop streamlined process to adhoc support for surges in demand.
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The Story Behind Baker Baker Health
Why are we called Baker Baker Health?
Our name is inspired by a powerful story of resilience, determination and success.
Discover the history behind our name and how it shapes and motivates the way we work as an organisation.
“Comprehensive and holistic assessments, dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for Children in Care.”
Our vision at Baker Baker Health
Get in touch
If you would like to find out more about why to choose Baker Baker Health to provide medical assesments for the Children in Care and the carers in your area please email hello@bakerbakerhealth.com.