Sunday 8 September 2013

September Blog : La Rentree





Welcome  back to all as we enter  the beginning of the new academic year-  that lovely time of hope and unblemished stationery  which the French call La Rentree.!
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, 



Frances is a GP in South London with several years of clinical experience working at the Well Centre, Streatham.
 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
  1. Jane H Roberts, general practitioner, clinical senior lecturer, Royal College of General Practitioners youth mental health clinical champion1,
  2. Rachel Pryke, general practitioner partner2,
  3. Margaret Murphy, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist3,
  4. Lucie Russell, director of campaigns, young minds 4
Author Affiliations
  1. 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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