The revised Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health guidance on making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in childhood has just been published. It provides an ethical and legal framework for practicing clinicians revised to reflect the changes in the scope and availability of advanced technology and in the emphasis and […]
Category: guest post
More to do – Report from the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum
The UK Government set up an independent group to advise on strategies to improve the health outcomes of children and young people (from before birth to age 25 years) in January 2012. It’s role is to challenge the outcomes seen in England and offer advice on what strategies should concentrate on to improve. A new report has […]
Every paediatrician can spot a child with autism?
‘Course everyone can spot a child with autism. It’s there in the MRCPCH textbooks right? Something about a lack of speech and gaze avoidance and repetitive behaviour. That must be pretty amenable to a spot diagnosis. This is me being a little provocative because hopefully very few, if any paediatricians think like this. Hopefully we […]
Guest post: 5 rules parents wish we followed
There’s nothing that necessarily makes parents better paediatricians, or paediatricians better parents, but it’s true that experiencing different stuff can be a great teaching experience … And our guest blogger Lucinda Winckworth is giving is five great tips from experience on the other side of the baby gro… Since having my children I have experienced both […]
P3: A presentation is the product of its parts, not simply a powerpoint.
In this blog, Ross Fisher (aka @ffolliet) takes us into a little-taught area of medical professionalism. Presentations. In this introductory blog, we’ll be introduced to a new (well, new-to-me) way of thinking about the oft-repeated act of standing before an audience of our peers and beginning to speak … We teach clinical skills and yet presentation […]
Guest Blog: Involving children and young people in health and social care research: the need for a new perspective
We’re all very aware of including young people in our clinical work – it’s why we’re in child health – but what about making it happen in research? This blog post by Louca-Mai Brady, a researcher working in the field of CYP’s participation in health services and research, and NIHR INVOLVE advisory group member, briefly outlines […]
Guest Blog: Beyond the stereotypes – getting to the heart of medical management
When you think of a manager, what image springs to mind? For me, earlier in my career, I may have pictured Montgomery Burns, the quintessential evil capitalist manager of Springfield Power Plant in ‘The Simpsons”, or David Brent , the hilariously incompetent regional manager of Wernham Hogg, in “The Office”.. Perhaps our opinions are influenced […]
Guest post: The Systematic Review Speaks The Truth …… Or Does It?
A good quality systematic review should identify and synthesise all the available evidence, for a particular question, through meta-analysis. Conclusions can then be made about the effect of the intervention on the outcome. As, in theory, all the available evidence is gathered and assessed, surely the conclusions from the meta-analysis must be the truth and […]
Guest post: Making research really relevant
Do you know someone with a brain or spinal cord tumour? Has this condition touched your life? Research is always going on into brain and spinal cord tumours – but is it investigating the things that matter most? The aim of the Neuro-Oncology Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) is to gather views from people most directly […]
Top five tips from the UK’s National Paediatric Academic Trainee Weekend
The UK’s National Paediatric Academic Trainee group organised a conference to talk about how to get on in academic paediatrics. Now, there are academics of very many flavours in paediatrics and child health, and it’s always great to see more folk turning to the (en)light(ened) path of never believing anything and ending every conversation “but more […]