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Secondary care

Course

BSAC Paediatric OPAT Workshop

04 September 2025

London

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) allows for medically stable patients to be discharged (or avoid admission completely) who require a course of intravenous antimicrobial agents. OPAT is a vital scheme that can prevent hospital admissions, reduce a patient’s length of stay in hospita...
Area of medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Neonatal medicine
Care setting
Primary care
Secondary care
Conditions
Rare disease
Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

07 July 2025

Nottingham

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. Feedback from previous DVAC courses has said the course has positively changed peoples’ practice. The course has previously run in Belfast an...
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

04 July 2025

Belfast

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. We run DVAC twice per year with the RBHSC SimEd team in Belfast, our feedback is that we’ve positively changed peoples’ practice.
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

20 June 2025

Belfast

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. We run DVAC twice per year with the RBHSC SimEd team in Belfast, our feedback is that we’ve positively changed peoples’ practice.
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Conditions
Asthma
Cancer
Chronic illness
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Rare disease
Stroke
Course

RIPE (Rapid Interpretation of Paediatric ECG) Course

30 June 2025
This course is for those who are interested to learn interpreting paediatric ECGs. This course aims to instil confidence to interpret from basic ECGs to complex ECGs with top tips to interpret most ECGs within 2min.
Area of medicine
Cardiovascular
Community child health
Drugs and medicines
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Neonatal medicine
Care setting
Ambulance services
Community services
Primary care
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Conditions
Chronic illness
Epilepsy
Rare disease
News

Collaboration or integration - from our St David's Day Conference

24 March 2025
This excellent event took place last month, curated by our trainee members. Through a series of presentations, we looked at how integrated care can help address complexity and bring efficiency, but also how to link in with others' expertise and perspective.
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RCPCH Invited Reviews Service - how a review can help and our processes

The Invited Reviews Service delivers clinically led peer reviews to healthcare organisations when they need independent, objective expert advice and external assurance on the clinical services and quality of care they provide. Invited Reviews aim to provide a safe space for active listening, and...
Community services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Paediatric sub-specialty
Patient involvement
Quality improvement
Service design
Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services
Facing the Future - emergency care
Integrated care
Invited reviews
Measurement and performance
Models of care
Service planning