This coming Friday, January 31st, the Paediatric Liaison UK Network will hold its bi-annual meeting in London.
Date & Time: January 31st, 9.45am – 5pm
Location: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH
Click here to get more information about the day’s schedule and to register for the meeting.
The 24th World Congress of the International Association of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), which will be held in Singapore between the 20th and 23rd July, has issued a call for abstracts for poster presentations. They say:
| Submit an abstract and be selected as a Poster Presenter at the 24th World Congress…. Submission is open to all health care professionals, academics and researchers from all fields of applications and backgrounds with an interest in mental health. ABSTRACT TOPICS INCLUDE: – Addictive Disorders – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – Autism Spectrum and Developmental Disorders – Mood and Anxiety Disorders – Basic Science and Imaging – Bipolar DisorderEducation and Learning – Epidemiology To view the full list of abstract topics and submission guidelines, click here. |
You can submit an abstract here. The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended until February 10.
To read more about the conference, click here. Early booking rates are available for the conference until March 11.
VENUE:
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Coram Campus
41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
DATE:
Friday 3rd July, 2020
TIMES:
Registration: 8.30am-9.25am
Conference: 9.25am-5.15pm
CoramBAAF Health Group Annual Meeting: 9.00am-9.25am.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Agency medical advisers, named and designated doctors and nurses, GPs, health visitors, school nurses, midwives and specialist nurses for looked after children, health professionals for disabled children, designated heads and teachers for looked after children, social workers, children’s guardians, adoption and fostering panel members, independent reviewing officers, mental health workers, psychiatrists and psychologists working with looked after and adopted children.
NETWORKING DINNER – Thursday 2 July 2020
Delegates will have the option of joining colleagues the day before for the networking dinner at 8pm in central London.
FEES:
> Full or associate CoramBAAF member (£185 + £37 VAT) Total Fee £222
> Nurse, student or individual CoramBAAF member (£135 + £27 VAT) Total Fee – £162
> Adoptive parent or foster carer (£135 + £27 VAT) Total Fee £162
> Non-member (£250 + £50 VAT) Total Fee £300
* Concessions for care leavers and adopted young people available by negotiation
CONTACT:
For further details contact the Conference Team on 020 7520 7520 or email conferences@corambaaf.org.uk
As the sun sets on the last day of 2019, the PMHA would like to wish you a Happy New Year and a great start to the new decade. We hope we can continue to work together in 2020 to help children and young people everywhere lead healthy and happy lives.
If you haven’t already registered, please do come and join us at the PMHA Annual Meeting at the end of January in the lovely Highgate House in Northamptonshire. It’s a great chance to share knowledge and ideas, as well as to meet with colleagues and friends both new and old.
RCEMLearning, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s e-learning platform, recently published an article on their website about self harm in young people.
To read the article click here.
We invite trainees in Paediatrics, Psychiatry, General Practice, and Emergency Medicine to submit abstracts for a poster session in which trainees can present their audits, research, or quality improvement projects related to child mental health.
To download a form and submit an abstract, please go to this page.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is November 30th.
In this article for the Guidelines in Practice website, Dr Janice Allister (GP, Edinburgh) identifies five key learning points for primary care from the updated NICE guideline on depression in children and young people. Click the image below to read the article:
The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) recently published a review of the quality of care provided to children and young people with mental health conditions admitted to a general health hospital or mental health facility and an assessment of healthcare utilisation in this group using routinely collected national datasets.
Click on the link below to go to the publication:
NCEPOD – Mental Healthcare in Young People and Young Adults (2019)
The dates for this year’s PMHA Annual Winter Meeting have been set for the 23rd and 24th of January, 2020.
The programme will be posted in the autumn.
We hope you will join us!
This one-day course will enable you to confidently support children and young people with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Date: 4 October 2019 – 4 October 2019
Time: 09.00 – 17.00
Location:
RCPCH
5-11 Theobalds Road
London
WC1X 8SH
United Kingdom
For more information:
Paediatric Mental Health Association 