A review of the PICH learning seminars, plus other news and views …
Article published by Cate Luce on 2 October 2019
Top Tips Involve your patient from the very beginning of your project Identify your stakeholders and consider what would be their motivating factors to ensure their engagement Use available databases Consider the learning points even when things don’t go according to plan Do things outside your comfort zone to make your project more interesting If I could do it again…. Don’t jump into an idea straight away Spend more time talking to parents within their own environment Consider…
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Article published by Chloe Macaulay on 2 October 2019
Are you interested in working across traditional boundaries? Do you want to achieve some of your leadership and integrated care RCPCH Progress objectives? If YES, then Learning Together clinics are for you! Learning Together is an exciting interdisciplinary training model between paediatrics and GP trainees. A paediatric trainee (ST5+) pairs with a GP ST3 and they run a series of focused child health joint clinics within primary care. More information can be found at: www.learningtogether.org.uk How can you…
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Article published by Miriam Cabib on 2 October 2019
Before I started PICH I already had a number of potential projects in mind, but little experience of what integrated care means. I was slightly nervous about joining the programme because I knew that it was quite likely that I would be the only non-clinical person in the room. I must say that all my worries were gone after the first meeting though: everyone was really nice, inclusive and open to listen to different views! Being a project manager for…
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Article published by Catherine Sikorski on 16 September 2019
Thanks Hannah Zhu for these notes from our final seminar of the academic year: Red Thread – integrated care with youth workers, ED, police, social care We need to take a public health approach to youth violence! Youth workers going to emergency departments to work with young people aged 10-24 who are victims of violence. Youth Violence is: – Prevalent: 300,000 ED admissions caused by violence every year – Expensive – Contagious – Damaging – Unequal: associated with poverty – Treatable: evidence shows violence can…
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Article published by Catherine Sikorski on 10 June 2019
We had a really interesting session on Wednesday 5th June. In the 6pm mentoring session two of this year’s participants took us on their PICH journeys so far. First of all we heard from Cate Luce, talking about supporting parents on the neonatal unit, building shared guidelines and exploring reasons parents bring newborn babies to the ED. Then Hannah Opstad told us about her SOCKS project teaching primary school children about cyber bullying and online safety. Soon to be rolled…
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Article published by Catherine Sikorski on 6 March 2019
Thanks to Anna Page for this graphic summary of February’s seminar from Dominique Allwood.
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Article published by Catherine Sikorski on 4 March 2019
You are warmly invited to our next seminar in the Programme for Integrated Child Health series. The evening will focus on exploring the learning and development of the Children and Young People’s Partnership. A holistic, population based, data driven programme seeking to show through evaluation how to create an ICS (integrated care system) for children. The session will be led by Claire Lemer, who combines working as a general paediatric consultant with service transformation roles focused on improving the interface…
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Article published by Kate Dharmarajah on 16 January 2019
A superb seminar from Eugenia Lee (GP lead for children with HLP) on 09/01/19 Scary figures… but pulling people together from different disciplines, geography, backgrounds, experiences – all motivated to improve the lives of London’s children. Now is a fantastic time to make change – NHS 10 year plan highlighting children’s health like never before! https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/ Amongst PICH participants and mentors 2019 we agreed via a dragons den bid-off that we would prioritise the mental health of the next generation if…
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Article published by Kate Dharmarajah on 13 December 2018
Inspiring seminar by Michelle Heys: paediatrician, public health doctor and data guru, on 12th December. How can data really help us and influence change… see the graphic for more details! Graphic – How can data influence change?
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Article published by Kate Dharmarajah on 25 November 2018
Deepening our understanding of patient experience at this month’s PICH seminar. We had presentations from Bea (practice champion manager for CC4C connecting care for children), and Dr Heidi – Paed trainee at the Royal London and former research fellow for CC4C. Bea talked about collaboration of professionals and community members (on an equal platform) to meet needs of the local populations Heidi described how to involve patients meaningfully in research, and how is it relevant to recurrent wheeze. Key links:…
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