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Empowering 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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Giving 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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Measuring 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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Integrated 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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Speed. 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…
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Complex systems also come in children’s sizes
Throughout my master's degree in ‘One Health, Infectious Disease’, I became fascinated by how subtle changes can have drastic impact on the natural equilibrium that protects us, the animals, and…