Below is a photo of youth health services taken whilst on a
brief sojourn in Lille, northern France- you see, even when on hol youth health is never far from my mind...
I have a few announcements to make.
Firstly, I am delighted to welcome Dr Frances Baawuah as our
new Clinical Support Fellow,
She will be working with me on the new RCGP Youth Mental
Health Clinical Priority. Frances and I will be meeting our extended group of
Stakeholders, from the Voluntary Sector and Collegiate Partners on Sept 25th.
We will be planning our next stage of the priority work programme. Frances will
be leading on social media networking
and we will report back as plans develop.
Secondly we will be running a session on Friday 4th
October at RCGP Annual Conference at Harrogate: please join us there ( Session
D1, 11.40-12.40).
Thirdly, I would like to announce a new publications of
note:
BMJ 10 minute consultation : Young people who self-harm by
cutting
Practice . 10 minute consultation
Young people who self harm
by cutting
BMJ 2013;
347 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5250 (Published 30 August 2013)
Cite this
as: BMJ 2013;347:f5250
Authors
- Jane H Roberts, general practitioner, clinical senior lecturer, Royal College of General Practitioners youth mental health clinical champion1,
- Rachel Pryke, general practitioner partner2,
- Margaret Murphy, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist3,
- Lucie Russell, director of campaigns, young minds 4
Author
Affiliations
- Correspondence to: J H Roberts jane.roberts@sunderland.ac.uk
Rachel and I are very proud of our publication, and delighted to have worked with one of the stakeholders: Young Minds, Lucie Russell. We hope our peers find it
useful.
Forthcoming meetings of note
Addressing young people’s heath inequalities
The next meeting of the RCGP Adolescent Health Group is our TelCon 12/09/13 and then full meeting in early December.
Anyy questions: please contact
Chair: jane.roberts@sunderland
Secretary ( & resident poet) : Samir Dawlatly s.dawlatly@nhs.net
Administratorpar excellence : Hannah Price hannah.price@rcgp.org.uk
With very best wishes
Jane
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