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BACCH Home What's NewSituations VacantBACCH is calling for self-nominations to the following positions:
The deadline to apply to one of these positions is Monday 14th July. Click here for more information. Joint commisioning of children’s services across local authorities and primary care trustsMajor service reviews have demonstrated that gaps exist in the provision of joined-up healthcare and related services for children, young people and families. As professional organisations whose members work across both public health and children's services, we want to ensure that those strategies, such as Every Child Matters and The Children's Plan, protect and improve the health of children and young people in practice, and uphold the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Response to HCC consultation April 2008Benchmark indicators for children’s servicesMaking Choose and Book work for community paediatriciansChoose and Book is a national service that, for the first time, combines electronic booking and a choice of place, date and time for first outpatient appointments. It allows patients to choose their initial hospital appointment, and book it on the spot in the surgery or later on the phone or via the internet. Community Paediatrics as a Career LeafletBACCH has developed a leaflet illustrating the diverse and interesting nature of a career in community paediatrics. The leaflet will be sent to the paediatrics care lead at all medical schools within the UK. Whilst BACCH owns the copyright of the leaflet, it is happy for members to download the leaflet for non-commercial purposes. BACCH endorses the Children's Liver Disease Foundation ‘Yellow Alert Campaign’BACCH is pleased to announce its endorsement of the Children's Liver Disease Foundation ‘Yellow Alert Campaign’, which promotes the early diagnosis and appropriate referral of liver disease in newly born infants. It is vital that liver disease is identified and treated as early as possible. The Yellow Alert campaign aims to raise awareness, amongst both community healthcare professionals and new parents / parents to be, of the action which should be taken if a baby has prolonged jaundiced (classed as two weeks after birth in a full term baby and three weeks in a premature baby). For more information, please visit www.childliverdisease.org/education/yellowalert. The BACCH office has copies of the Jaundice Protocal: early identification and referral of liver disease in infants information pack. BACCH Undergraduate Teaching SurveyFollowing the presentation of the preliminary results of the undergraduate teaching survey on experiences at medical school and the impact of such experiences on career choice at the ASM, we are asking that those members who have not yet contributed to the survey, to do so as soon as possible by downloading it from here and returning it to kelly.robinson@rcpch.ac.uk. WHO Growth Standards in the UK – SACN/RCPCH Expert Group ReportAn expert group convened by the Standing Committee on Childhood Nutrition (SACN) and the RCPCH have now published their report on the applicability of the WHO Growth Standards in the UK. The report recommends that the new WHO standards should be adopted for children between 2 weeks post natal age and 24 months, and that the existing UK standards should continue to be used after the age of 2 years. The expert group acknowledged that the feasibility of this change would require piloting and field testing, and stressed that health professionals would require additional training and guidance on the use and interpretation of WHO Growth Standards and UK1990 references for monitoring growth in clinical practice. This change will affect all of us! The report can be downloaded from the SACN website: www.sacn.gov.uk or by accessing the Members' Area. PBR and Community Activity Data CollectionDr C M Ni Bhrolchain Submission to the House Of Commons Health Select Committee enquiry into the Electronic Patient RecordThe British Association for Community Child Health (BACCH) is the largest paediatric subspecialty in the UK; we represent about 1200 career grade paediatricians working in many settings such as health centres, clinics, schools and social care venues as well as traditional hospitals. We work closely with colleagues in other agencies, particularly education and social care and with other health colleagues including general practitioners and community nurses such as health visitors and school nurses. Our referral base is extremely broad and the spectrum of our work covers physical illness, learning problems, emotional health as well as psychosocial problems such as safeguarding and children in special circumstances. We seek to reverse the inverse care law by specifically targeting vulnerable children, carry out holistic assessments of health needs and help establish a multiagency network around the child and family. Many of the children we see have multiple problems NOT requiring admission to hospitals and better managed close to the child's home and school. We would like the Electronic Health Record to support our attempts at reducing health inequalities for our patients, whose manifold health problems are often compounded by economic adversity. BACCH discussion paperTraining materials |
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