Ball, William PBlack, CorriGordon, SharonOstrovska, BārbalaParanjothy, ShantiniRasalam, AdeleneRitchie, DavidRowlands, HelenRzewuska, MagdalenaThompson, ElaineWilde, KatieButler, Jessica E2023-01-162023-01-162023-01-11Ball, W P, Black, C, Gordon, S, Ostrovska, B, Paranjothy, S, Rasalam, A, Ritchie, D, Rowlands, H, Rzewuska, M, Thompson, E, Wilde, K & Butler, J E 2023, 'Inequalities in children's mental health care : analysis of routinely collected data on prescribing and referrals to secondary care', BMC Psychiatry, vol. 23, no. 1, 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04438-51471-244XORCID: /0000-0002-0528-3121/work/126803448ORCID: /0000-0003-4642-1196/work/126804293ORCID: /0000-0001-5024-8846/work/165792266https://hdl.handle.net/2164/19841Funding Information: This work was supported by the Health Foundation Networked Data Lab Programme. Funding Information: We thank The Health Foundation for providing financial support to allow this analysis to be conducted and for facilitating the Networked Data Lab partnerships which have informed this work. The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and healthcare for people in the UK. We thank the NHS Grampian Health Intelligence team for facilitating use of this data. We also thank the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) for processing the data used in this study, as well as providing the secure platform used in this analysis and administrative support. We are grateful to members of the public who have made invaluable contributions to this work. This work uses data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of this manuscript and for their constructive comments. There is widespread agreement that public participation is necessary for health data-intensive projects [44]. We formed, trained, and involved a PPIE group of nine persons interested in health data usage for public benefit through a series of interactions throughout the research cycle including narrowing the focus of the research topic, developing analytical plans, sense-checking interpretations and improving the readability and accessibility of the results. We also held group meetings with nine carers/parents and community workers who work with families and children. They reviewed near-final findings, remarked on usefulness and relevance, and suggested areas for further investigation. A comprehensive report of this effort utilising the GRIPP-2 reporting checklist for public involvement [45] is available in the supplementary materials (Table S1). Funding Information: We thank The Health Foundation for providing financial support to allow this analysis to be conducted and for facilitating the Networked Data Lab partnerships which have informed this work. The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and healthcare for people in the UK. We thank the NHS Grampian Health Intelligence team for facilitating use of this data. We also thank the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) for processing the data used in this study, as well as providing the secure platform used in this analysis and administrative support. We are grateful to members of the public who have made invaluable contributions to this work. This work uses data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of this manuscript and for their constructive comments. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).183677782engSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingChild & adolescent mental healthMental health prescribingCAMHSHealth inequalitiesR Medicine (General)R1Journal article10.1186/s12888-022-04438-5231