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Community Child Health

for community and hospital-based paediatricians

Now booking.   Registration fee: £280   Click here to apply for this event.

Venue: The National Heart & Lung Institute, corner of Dovehouse and Cale Streets, London SW3 6LY
This popular course provides an update on topical clinical issues and challenges facing community paediatricians including public health, neurodisability and child protection.
Experts in the field will provide take home messages which will influence clinical practice.
MONDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2010
09.00Registration; coffee & tea served
General Paediatrics
09.30 ConstipationDr Mark Furman
10.15 Sickle cell disease in the school childDr Paul Telfer
11.00Coffee
Public Health
11.30 The Healthy Child ProgrammeProfessor Mitch Blair
12.15 Child Death Review process: implications for disabled children, young people and their familiesDr Karen Horridge
andDr Jane Williams
13.00Lunch
Management of Complex Long-term Conditions
13.45 Palliative care: how to work with community servicesDr Finella Craig
14.30 The hidden and the challenging; assessing and managing the long term medical complications of Severe Childhood Acquired Brain InjuryDr Serena Haywood
15.15Short tea break
Hearing and communication
15.30 Auditory processing disorderDr Tony Sirimanna
16.15 Language disorder v Autistic Spectrum DisorderDr Vicky Slonims
17.00End of Day 1
TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2010
Children’s mental health
09.30 Secrets in familiesDr Sharon Pettle
10.15 Issues in the recognition and management of depressionDr Quentin Spender
11.00Coffee
11.30 ADHD Dr Elspeth Webb
Neurodisability
12.15 Genetics & disability - when and what to test?Dr Louise Wilson
13.00Lunch
13.45 How to diagnose cerebral palsyDr Lucinda Carr
Safeguarding
14.30 Female genital mutilationDr Deborah Hodes
15.15 Child neglect, attachment and developmentProfessor David Howe
16.00End of course
(Paediatricians attending may claim up to 11 CPD credits in accordance with the current RCPCH CPD guidelines)
 

Now booking.   Registration fee: £280   Click here to apply for this event.

(Where 2 fees are shown, the first applies to doctors, and the second to allied health professionals)