With the
academic year well under way
our focus remains on education and supporting more youth-friendly practice in
general practice and community settings.
Building on
the nationally delivered series of BMJ Master classes the Adolescent Health Group
(AHG) is proposing a tailor made 1d educational event to be held at RCGP new
HQ, 30, Euston Sq, London on Friday April 26th.
We will be
covering four areas which underpin
consultations with young people : mental and sexual health; safeguarding
issues; body image and living healthily. Delegates will emerge with an armoury
of ‘top tips’ and will have the opportunity to bring along difficult
(anonymised ) clinical cases for peer discussion and access to topic experts.
Registration
will open in December.
The RCGP
adolescent heath group is also involved
with delivering an educational event for Paediatricans –SPRs and aspiring
consultants and will offer ‘a state of the art’ review of good practice in
the delivery of health care services for
young people entitled
‘How to
manage the transition between Paediatric and Adult care’. See the RCHCP
website-the programme is the featured event of the moment:
http:// www.rcpch.ac.uk/events (04/02/13)
Finally, we
are delighted to see the launch of our groundbreaking joint project:
GP Champions
for Youth health. This is a collaborative project involving AYPH and Youth
Access and RCGP. Ten GPs have been selected to partner with a local youth
charity and explore new ways of working
‘Its
aim is to transform the delivery of health services for young people by
creating new links between GPs and local voluntary organisations. GPs will
benefit from getting more options for referring young people and help with
commissioning. The project will promote young people’s health needs within the
commissioning agenda and support improvements to address these’.
The
first learning set take place on December 5th in London
You can find more on the home page of AYPH:
keep watching
this space!
Best wishes
Jane Roberts
