Wednesday 28 November 2012

November's News




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

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