article_snippet: Dr Cass said that focus on care for the elderly should not mean that issues surrounding children's health should fall by the wayside.
article_snippet: The survey found more than three-quarters of people said that child death rates, reducing rates of childhood cancer and ensuring consistent health service provision for children and young people should be the top child health priorities for government.
article_snippet: Dr Cass said: 'child death rates, reducing rates of childhood cancer and ensuring consistent health service provision for children and young people should be the top child health priorities for government often see policies hitting the headlines that are targeted at the ageing population - increased funding for dementia research and additional dementia training for NHS workers are among the pledges that have been made in recent weeks. '
article_snippet: But whilst caring for our ageing population is important, it shouldn't mean that children's health falls to the wayside. '
article_snippet: This poll shows that the voting public care as much about child health as child health do care for the elderly. '
article_snippet: I call on the next government to listen to the facts and listen to the public - make child health a priority.
article_snippet: Not only does it make strong moral sense, it makes economic and political sense too.'
article_snippet: Most people in a study (file picture) said that children's healthcare should be just as an important priority for NHS as elderly care.
article_snippet: More than half also supported policies to support children's mental health and to reduce the national speed limit in built up areas to 20mph to attempt to reduce deaths from road traffic accidents.