Our next webinar will be taking place on Monday 21st November at 19:30. The topic is ‘Contemporary Complexities of ADHD: Understanding and supporting diverse clinical presentations’, and it will be delivered by Dr. Cassie Coleman, Consultant Community Paediatrician
As usual, please register using your professional email account (@nhs.net, @nhs.uk or @nhs.scot)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
This post is intended to summarise the discussion at the PMHA workshop, held on the 3rd September at the BACCH ASM. We hope that it will promote discussion and the sharing of resources and ideas.
Background:
Increasingly, community paediatric services are presented with children in whom neurodevelopmental problems, usually presenting as SEN, have come to light in the primary school period. Given that there are 1.5million children in England with SEN, and a shrinking pool of NHS resources, there are challenging questions around which children need assessment by a paediatrician, and what form this assessment should take.
Continue reading “Approaching neurodevelopmental concerns in school-age children: workshop summary”
The George Still Forum is running more of its successful ADHD days in September click here for more details
Important document for anyone involved in ADHD services.
Mainly uncontroversial, but one good and one bad point:
Good: CYP to be referred to group psychology intervention
Bad: schools ignored as an important part of management.
http://publications.nice.org.uk/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-qs39
Paediatric Mental Health Association 