Diabetes and endocrinology

RCPCH responds to BMA's 'Growing up in the UK' report

Responding to the BMA’s Growing Up in the UK report, Dr Hilary Cass, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said:

“The message is loud and clear; the UK has a lot of work to do to ensure our children are as healthy as they could, should and deserve to be.

Last published on 17 May 2013

Healthy School Child Programme

The Healthy School Child Programme (HSCP) will be an interactive, evidence-based e-learning resource covering the mental and physical wellbeing of children aged 5-11. 

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Last published on 3 May 2013

3rd Practical Aspects in Paediatric Endocrinology

Event date: 
19 July 2013
Event Location: 
Birkbeck University of London, London

Contact Name: Senthil Senniappan

Telephone: 07971625031

Email: punchcourses@gmail.com

Event website link: http://www.punchcharity.co.uk/

NPDA- transparency and open data

In his transparency and open data letter to cabinet ministers on 7 July 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron outlined the commitment of the government to make available clinical audit data from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.

Last published on 1 May 2013

Insulin omission is a growing problem in young women, the latest NHS figures suggest

The NHS National Diabetes Audit says a high proportion of women aged between 15 and 30 are skipping insulin injections to lose weight.

Now a charity wants diabulimia, as it is known, officially recognised as a mental health condition.

Diabulimia is when diabetics deliberately restrict their insulin for weight loss. Leading doctors and psychiatrists say diabulimia is most common with young women who have type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is when the body doesn't make its own insulin and is unable to control how much sugar we have in our blood.

Last published on 16 January 2013

5th Practical Issues in the Management of Childhood Diabetes

Event date: 
19 April 2013
Event Location: 
Birbeck University, London

Contact Name: Dr Senthil Senniappan

Telephone: 07971625031

Email: punchcourses@gmail.com

Event website link: http://www.punchcharity.co.uk/

Alder Hey Updates - Endocrine / Diabetes

Event date: 
25 September 2013
Event Location: 
Education Centre, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool

Contact name: Geraldine Handley

Telephone: 0151 252 5403

Email: geraldine.handley@alderhey.nhs.uk

Staff, Associate Specialist and Specialty Doctor (SAS) Committee Members' Page

This page exists to provide Staff, Associate Specialist and Specialty Doctor (SAS) Committee members with access to papers for the next meeting of the RCPCH SAS Committee.

This page is in the secure section of the College website and is only accessible to members of the RCPCH SAS Committee. Members are asked to treat this page and all its contents as confidential at all times.

 

Last published on 16 May 2013

Information for investigators

The BPSU welcomes applications from clinicians and researchers who wish to carry out national surveillance on rare childhood diseases.

The BPSU provides access to over 3,400 paediatricians and lessens the burden on those clinicians of requests for information from numerous different sources. The BPSU Executive also `provides expertise and support to prospective researchers to ensure that research methodologies are effective and appropriate.

Last published on 22 November 2012

BPSU studies

The BPSU supports studies that address a rare childhood disorder (or rare complication of a commoner disease) of such low incidence as to require cases to be collected nationally in order to generate sufficient numbers for the study.

Since its inception in 1986 the BPSU has completed 81 studies. Information about current and past studies can be found using the links below:

Last published on 8 November 2012
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ASSET Trainees' assessment tool

BPSU British Paediatric Surveillance Unit

CPD CPD diary for non training grades

E-Portfolio Trainees' online learning tool