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Read the full storyDoing something different outside of the hospital: Restart a heart
I’m a paediatric trainee and this is my second full year of specialising in paediatrics. Most of my job, as you would imagine, is spent looking after unwell children and communicating with anxious…
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Read the full storyEmpowering parents with life-saving skills
As part of my four-month rotation in integrated paediatrics I was lucky enough to take part in monthly teaching of basic life support to parents. By far, this has been one of the most enjoyable and…
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Read the full storyGiving parents confidence about childhood vaccinations
Local authorities aim to have a minimum of 90 per cent of children immunised in order to protect both the individual child and the overall population (www.gov.uk/phe www.chimat.org.uk). Hammersmith…
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Read the full storyMeasuring value and real impact in child health
As a sentimentalist, I believe that my present will be continuously shaped by my past. That would then explain why, after so many years of research, I tend to define success by the number of…
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Read the full storyIntegrated paediatrics and Connecting Care for Children
Integrated paediatrics was the last four-month rotation of my two-year junior doctor’s foundation training programme. Before this I had busy, clinical, service provision roles in A&E, medicine and…
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Read the full storySpeed. Efficiency. Immediacy.
If you were to think of three words to describe how the NHS operates, sadly you would be unlikely to come up with these. Although the NHS can sometimes defy our expectations, the organisation’s size…
