Child Health Surveillance Course

 

This 3 day course is aimed primarily at GP registrars seeking a general introduction to the theory and practice of CHS. It will be interactive, and provide high quality experiential learning in CHS.

 

It covers diverse topics from; faltering growth, screening - hearing loss, visual disorders, congenital dislocation of the hip, congenital heart disease etc. Also it will cover vaccination and Immunisation updates, child abuse, neglect and safeguarding children, communication difficulties and disorders, behaviour problems etc. 

Pennine's Annual CHS Course

 

Our next course is being run on May 2012, so why not contact us and book a place of this popular course?

 

 

 

Where are we?

How to find us (click)

 

 

Have a look at the itinerary from 2010 to get a flavour of the things we cover

 

Day 1 (click)

 

 

Day 2 (click)

 

 

Day 3 (click)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handouts from the 2011 course - available until July 31st

(Please note that some of these are large files and take a couple of minutes to download)

 

• Introduction (click)
• Neonatal and six week checks (click)
• Accident Prevention (click)
• Immunisations (click)
• The Green Book - DOH guidance on immunisation (click)
• Breast feeding (click)
• Attachment disorders (click)
• Hearing surveillance (click)
• Speech and language therapy (click)
• Visual and hearing impairment (click)
• Safeguarding Children (click)
• Every Child Matters (click)
• When to suspect child mistreatment - NICE 2009 (click)

 

 

Recommended reading

 

Health for all Children, revised 4th edition    Hall and Elliman  Oxford Univ. Press

 

The Child Surveillance Handbook                  Hall, Willaims and Elliman   Radcliffe Press

 

 

 

Useful links

 

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Healthprotection/Immunisation/Greenbook/DH_4097254 - the updated 'Green Book'  on childhood immunisation from the DOH

 

http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/Immunisation_Schedule - the NHS patients' guide to the national immunisation schedule

 

http://calderdale-scb.org.uk/ - the excellent Calderdale Safeguarding Board website

 

http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage.cfm?ID=-40239093 - the paediatric section of GP notebook

 

http://www.pennine-gp-training.co.uk/7-care-of-acutely-ill-people-8-care-of-children-and-young-people-9-care-of-older-adults.htm - the paediatric section of the Pennine website

 

Breast feeding advice/support services:

http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk/

http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk

http://www.thebabycafe.co.uk  

 

child accident prevention trust

 

 

 

Useful downloads relating to CHS taken from our curriculum matched paediatric section of the website

 

Consent to treatment by children 2007

 

Every Child Matters - 2004

 

Common Assessment Framework - 2006

 

Child Protection referral procedures (Bradford, Calderdale & Kirklees) - 2009

 

GMC - Doctors and Children working together - 2008

 

Childhood immunisation programme 2010

 

 

 

Our next course is being run on May 2012, so why not contact Caroline (click) to find out more

 

You can apply from Jan 2012 onwards by sending a cheque with a completed application form which will be available from the website in January