RCPCH Conference 2023 - event programme

Our themes

The Conference theme in 2023 is 'Child health in a changing world'. It's more relevant than ever as we navigate challenges and opportunities in paediatrics.

And, we have a theme for each day:

• Tuesday: The big problems - addressing climate change and the social determinants of health
• Wednesday: The big challenges - compassionate leadership and mental health
• Thursday: The big picture – how to harness technology and implement research for better outcomes.

In-person programme

Tuesday 23 May

08:55-10:20 | Plenary

• 08:55-09:00 | Welcome from RCPCH President Dr Camilla Kingdon
• 09:00-09:10 | RCPCH &Us welcome
• 09:10-09:50 | Keynote: Social determinants of health
  Lord Victor Adebowale, Chair of the NHS Confederation
• 09:50-10:20 | Abstract presentations - Three of this year's top scoring abstracts will be presented in the pecha kucha format

10:20-10:45 | Refreshment break, poster viewing and exhibition

10:45-12:00 | Workshops

• Insights into the continuum of maternal, newborn and child care in low-income settings
• EDI: differential attainment - what is it and how can we address it?
• Progress+: The Home Straight to Implementation'
• The blind spot - outpatient service processes impact access to secondary care
• Air pollution and health inequalities - what’s the problem and what can paediatricians do about it?
• Improving nationwide paediatric patient safety through the Paediatric Early Warning System roll-out
• Medical admissions for eating disorders - how to make them successful and how to avoid NGT feeding under restraint
• Supporting the workforce - best practice for supervision of advancing practice in paediatrics
• Talking with families when death is a likely outcome
• Working with system change to improve child health outcomes
• How to really do… shared decision making

12:00-13:30 | Annual General Meeting

12:00-13:30 | Lunch break, poster viewing and exhibition

13:30-14:45 | Specialty group and special interest group sessions

• British Academy of Childhood Disability and British Association for Community Child Health
• Trainees Oversight Committee
• Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology Special Interest Group
• Children’s Ethics & Law Special Interest Group
• Paediatric Clinical Leaders: service planning, provision and best practice
• George Still Forum - National Paediatric ADHD Network Group
• Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine
• British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin

14:45-15:15 | Refreshment break, poster viewing and exhibition

15:15-16:30 | Specialty group and special interest groups sessions reconvene

15:15-16:30 | British Inherited Metabolic Disease Group

16:30-17:30 | Plenary

• 16:35-17:15 | Keynote: Climate change: Engaging paediatricians in the global climate change agenda. We need you! Dr Maria Neira, Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
• 17:15-17:30 | Prize presentation ceremony: James Spence Award, Honorary Fellows and Members Award

17:30-19:00 | Welcome drinks reception and prize winners gathering

17:30-18:30 | RCPCH Global Programme: Supporting Hospital Improvement and National Care Standards across Nepal

18:30 | BAPIO dinner at the Crowne Plaza hotel

• Drinks reception
• Equisite fusion dinner with wine 
• DJ with a Bollywood flair

Tickets cost £40 and can be booked with BAPIO directly by emailing admin@bapio.co.uk or calling 01234 212879.

Wednesday 24 May

07:30-08:15 | Group 5k run led by former VP for Training and Assessment, Dr David Evans

08:00-08:45 | Breakfast sessions

• My paper was rejected - what should I do?
• Creating space for improvement – engaging children and young people and enabling quality improvement in a virtual world
• How to deliver childhood autism diagnostic services in a changing world

09:00-10:30 | Plenary

• 09:00-09:05 | Welcome from the Chairs and RCPCH &Us
• 09:05-09:45 | Keynote: Leading for kindness in healthcare, Dr Bob Klaber, Consultant General Paediatrician & Executive Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• 09:45-10:15 | Abstract presentations - three of this year's top scoring abstracts will be presented in the pecha kucha format
• 10:15-10:30 | Prize presentation ceremony: PAFTAs, Visiting Fellows, Michael Blacow Memorial Prize, Research awards, Exams awards and Children and young people voice champion award

10:30-11:00 | Refreshment break, poster viewing and exhibition

11:00-12:30 | Workshops

• United Kingdom Aspiring Paediatricians Society
• #ShiftTheDial on child health inequalities
• RCPCH Research and quality improvement update
• Understanding and managing conflict between families and healthcare professionals - evidence-based toolkit
• From chaos to care - the role of leadership when managing complex patients
• British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health
• RCPCH Climate Change Working Group
• Simulation training for managing mental health emergencies: demonstration of ALSG APEx course
• Mental health education for paediatricians - getting the basics right
• Child trafficking, slavery and exploitation - do you know what to do?
• Breaking barriers: Better Educational supervision through listening to IMG trainees experiences

12:30-13:30 | Lunch break, poster viewing and exhibition

12:45-13:30 | Magic in medicine workshop

12:45-13:30 | Networking meetings

• Mental Health Leads networking meeting
• RCPCH Ambassadors: an opportunity for current ambassadors to connect and those interested in the role to find out more
• RCPCH Climate Change Working Group networking meeting

12:45-13:30 | Lunch for Senior Members, Senior Fellows and Honorary Fellows

This function is for members within the above categories only and pre-registration is essential- you can add this to your booking when registering for the Conference.

13:30-14:30 | Illingworth-Rees memorial lecture

Abuse, neglect and neurodevelopment across the life-course: what can paediatricians and child psychiatrists do about this together? Professor Helen Minnis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow

14:30-15:45 | Specialty group and special interest groups sessions

• British Association of General Paediatrics
• British Paediatric and Adolescent Bone Group and British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
• British Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition and Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine
• British Paediatric Neurology Association and British Society for Rheumatology
• British Association of Child and Adolescent Public Health and International Child Health Group
• British Association for Paediatric Nephrology and British Association of Paediatric Urologists
• Paediatric Mental Health Association

14:30-15:45 | Genomics in paediatrics

14:30-15:45 | Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group

15:45-16:15 | Refreshment break, poster viewing and exhibition

16:15-17:30 | Specialty group and special interest groups sessions reconvene

16:15-17:30 | Show, tell and listen – hear from College Officers and have your say!

17:30-18:30 | RCPCH Global Programme: Preventing, identifying and managing children with developmental delays and cognitive disabilities in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon

19:30-00:00 | Conference dinner at the Grand Central Hotel - You must pre-book to attend.

Open to everyone, the dinner is an excellent opportunity to unwind, catch up with old colleagues and make new connections in a relaxed environment.

Tickets cost £70.00 and include an arrival glass of sparkling wine, a 3-course meal with half a bottle of wine per person (and soft drink alternatives), with dancing to follow.

Dress code – smart casual

Thursday 25 May

07:30-08:15 | Yoga

08:00-08:45 | Breakfast session

• Humans not heroes - creating safe spaces for doctors to be vulnerable
• Time for kids - taking small steps to becoming more child-centred
• Not all wounds are visible – a live PaedsHub podcast

08:45-10:00 | Plenary

• 08:45-08:50 | Welcome from the Chairs and RCPCH &Us
• 08:50-09:30 | Keynote: Batteries not included: could healthcare technology address the challenges in child health? Professor Sam Shah, Digital Health Research Lead, UCL Global Business School for Health and Senior Advisor for Healthtech and Behaviour Change, Freuds
• 09:30-10:00 | Abstract presentations - three of this years top scoring abstracts will be presented in the pecha kucha format

10:00-11:15 | Rare diseases and the paediatrician – the role of the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU)

10:00-11:15 | Specialty group and special interest groups sessions

• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
• Child Protection Special Interest Group
• Paediatric Educators' Special Interest Group
• British Association of Perinatal Medicine and Neonatal Society
• Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group and Paediatric Special Interest Group: British Society of Haematology
• British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology and Young People's Health Special Interest Group
• British Association of Paediatricians in Audiology and British Paediatric Allergy Immunity and Infection Group
• British Paediatric Respiratory Society and Paediatric Critical Care Society
• Staff, Associate Specialist and Specialty Doctor Committee

11:15-11:45 | Refreshment break, poster viewing and exhibition

11:45-13:00 | Thrive Paediatrics - mobilising action for our workforce

11:45-13:00 | Specialty group and special interest groups sessions reconvene

13:00-13:45 | Lunch break, poster viewing and exhibition

13:15-13:45 | The Future Is Now – virtual reality in paediatric education and beyond!

13:45-14:45 | Plenary

• 13:45-14:25 | Keynote: Professor Lucy Chappell, DHSC Chief Scientific Adviser and CEO of the NIHR
• 14:25-14:45 | RCPCH &Us on the sofa

14:45-16:00 | Workshops

• Improving consultant recruitment – the revamped Appointment Advisory Committee process a year on
• Delivering inclusive care for asylum-seeking children and families - a “how to” workshop
• Comfortable in their skins - how to manage common skin conditions in young people
• Reimagining care in the digital age
• Applying quality improvement methodology to paediatric outpatient services
• Bella’s story - working with families to find learning when their child dies
• Improving health outcomes for children and young people from minoritised ethnic groups

 

Conference dinner, Wednesday 24 May

• 19:30, Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
• Tickets cost £70
• Smart casual
• Ticket price includes a welcome drink, 3-course meal with wine and soft drink alternative plus after dinner entertainment which will this year be a blended modern and traditional Ceilidh provided by Bahookie.
• Whilst the dinner can be a great opportunity to meet with senior College officers, it is a relaxed and open event and all delegates are welcome. If you are travelling with a friend or partner you are also very welcome to purchase a ticket and bring them along too!

Virtual programme

Tuesday 23 May

08:55-10:20 | Plenary

• 08:55-09:00 | Welcome from RCPCH President Dr Camilla Kingdon
• 09:00-09:10 | RCPCH &Us welcome
• 09:10-09:50 | Keynote:Social determinants of health
  Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chair of the NHS Confederation
• 09:50-10:20 | Abstract presentations - Three of this year's top scoring abstracts will be presented in the pecha kucha format

10:20-10:45 | Refreshment break and ePoster viewing

10:45-12:00 | Improving nationwide paediatric patient safety through the Paediatric Early Warning System roll-out

12:00-13:30 | Annual General Meeting

12:00-13:30 | Lunch break and ePoster viewing

13:30-14:45 | British Academy of Childhood Disability and British Association for Community Child Health

14:45-15:15 | Refreshment break and ePoster viewing

15:15-16:30 | British Academy of Childhood Disability and British Association for Community Child Health Groups reconvene

16:30-17:30 | Plenary

• 16:35-17:15 | Keynote: Climate change: What can child health professionals do and how is climate change relevant to the healthcare setting?, Dr Maria Neira, Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
• 17:15-17:30 | Prize presentation ceremony: James Spence Award, Honorary Fellows and Members Award

Wednesday 24 May

09:00-10:30 | Plenary

• 09:00-09:05 | Welcome from the Chairs and RCPCH &Us
• 09:05-09:45 | Keynote: Compassionate leadership, Dr Bob Klaber, Consultant General Paediatrician & Executive Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• 09:45-10:15 | Abstract presentations - three of this year's top scoring abstracts will be presented in the pecha kucha format
• 10:15-10:30 | Prize presentation ceremony: PAFTAs, Michael Blacow Memorial Prize, Research awards, Exams awards and Children and young people voice champion award

10:30-11:00 | Refreshment break and ePoster viewing

11:00-12:30 | From chaos to care - the role of leadership when managing complex patients

12:30-13:30 | Lunch break and ePoster viewing

13:30-14:30 | Illingworth-Rees memorial lecture
Abuse, neglect and neurodevelopment across the life-course: what can paediatricians and child psychiatrists do about this together?, Professor Helen Minnis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow

14:30-15:45 | British Association of General Paediatrics

15:45-16:15 | Refreshment break and ePoster viewing

16:15-17:30 | British Association of General Paediatrics Group Reconvenes

Thursday 25 May

08:45-10:00 | Plenary

• 08:45-08:50 | Welcome from the Chairs and RCPCH &Us
• 08:50-09:30 | Keynote: Batteries not included: could healthcare technology address the challenges in child health? Professor Sam Shah, Digital Health Research Lead, UCL Global Business School for Health and Senior Advisor for Healthtech and Behaviour Change, Freuds
• 09:30-10:00 | Abstract presentations - three of this years top scoring abstracts will be presented in the pecha kucha format

10:00-11:15 | Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

11:15-11:45 | Refreshment break and ePoster viewing

11:45-13:00 | Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Group reconvenes

13:00-13:45 | Lunch break and ePoster viewing

13:45-14:45 | Plenary

• 13:45-14:25 | Keynote: Professor Lucy Chappell, DHSC Chief Scientific Adviser and CEO of the NIHR
• 14:25-14:45 | RCPCH &Us on the sofa

14:45-16:00 | Reimagining care in the digital age