Events 

• Hot topics for clinical management - session at RCPCH Spring Meeting 22nd April 2010

Programme to follow shortly

Health Services update

This is a monthly update of  key documents, events and items of interest that have come out in the past month. Items have been selected that should be of particular interest to paediatricians across the UK, however more general items have also been included. It should be of particular interest to Clinical Directors.

Latest update

RCPCH Publications and Documents:

• Long-term Workforce Briefing - this briefing provides a summary of the workforce issues explored in MtFII. The paper would act as a good basis for briefing local Chief Executives about why there are difficulties staffing your unit.
   
• Solutions for the medical staffing of acute units - this paper looks at solutions to the immediate workforce issues facing paediatric units.
   
• Follow Up Survey of Paediatric Clinical Directors New Contract Job Plans - Survey Results - this surveys assesses progress made by clinical directors to revise job plans, in line with the new consultant contract.

Other publications:

• Making it Happen, Next Steps in NHS Reform - this Kings Fund document explores the effectiveness of current incentives in the health service to achieve continuous improvement.
  
  
•   Shifting the Balance of Healthcare to Local Settings - this Kings Fund document considers how the shift in balance from care in hospitals to community settings could be achieved. 

Links

A range of external links of relevance to paediatric clinical leads in the following broad topics;

• Organisations
• Publications
• Data and Information Sources

Organisations

• British Association of Medical Managers
• British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH)
• General Medical Council
• Royal College of Nursing
• Royal College of Physicians of London
• The Royal Society of Medicine
• Children's National Service Framework
• American Academy of Paediatrics
• The Institute of Child Health London
• WHO Child Health
• Paediatrics and Child Health (Canadian Paediatric Society)

Publications

• Archives of Diseases in Childhood
• British Medical Journal
• Paediatrics and Child Health
• Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
•  Paediatrics and Child Health
• The Lancet

Data and Information Sources

• Bandolier
• British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU)
• Cochrane Library
• Doctors.net
• Medical Directors' bulletin
• Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales
• Hospital for Sick Children - Toronto
• Isabel
• NHS Evidence Health Information Resources
• NHS Direct
• NICHD Cochrane NeoNatal
• Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI)
• PubMed