BACCH e-news
June 2019
In this issue:
- BACCH Annual Scientific Meeting
- Nominations for vacant posts
- Workforce update
- BAPA update
- External body reports/updates
- Events
BACCH Annual Scientific Meeting
10-11 September 2019, Manchester
- Registration (early bird deadline: 14 July)
- Abstract submissions are now closed and those who submitted will be contacted w/c 8 July.
Lectures
- FASD
- Future paediatricians
- Health for All Children
- Metabolic disease for the community paediatrician
- NF1
- Palliative/end of life care
Workshops
- CCH CSAC/Curriculum
- Child Protection Notes & Report Writing
- FASD
- Informatics: Children and Young People Currency
- Medicolegal workshop
- Obesity (HENRY charity)
- Parenting for paediatricians
- Pathways
- Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- Patient involvement - &Us
- Tics, stereotypies, dissociative movement episodes/non- epileptic seizures
- Why do we need so many Hearing Tests?
(further workshops tba)
Nominations for vacant posts
BACCH Executive Committee
Applications are sought for the following position:
- Assistant Convenor (2 year term was due to start Sept 2018, so will start as Assistant Convenor immediately on appointment, followed by 2 years as Convenor, starting Sept 2020)
Further details (including job descriptions) and how to apply (deadline for applications: 31 July 2019 - may be extended if no applications received)
BACCH Regional Coordinators
Coordinators are sought for the following regions, to take up post immediately and to serve for four years.
- Northern (County Durham, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tees Valley, and Tyne and Wear)
- SE Thames (East Sussex, Kent, West Sussex, and the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark)
- Yorkshire (East, North, South & Yorkshire, Northern Lincolnshire)
The Northern and Yorkshire posts have been vacant for sometime - if you aren't able to apply, do you know someone who may be interested?
Further details and how to apply (deadline for applications: 31 July 2019 - may be extended if no applications received)
Workforce update
NHS Long term plan
The NHS Interim workforce plan, including a medical workforce plan,
is now available. Unsurprisingly recruitment and retention are key priorities, together with increasing skill mix. Items of interest to us include:
- Increasing support for SAS doctors incl re-opening of the Associate Specialist grade
- Roll out of credentialing for specific skills
- Better opportunities for pausing training and for stepping in and out of training programmes
- Better opportunities for Foundation doctors to experience in ‘hard to recruit’ specialties and geographical areas (GP and psychiatry are named, but not paediatrics. However the long term plan does identify ‘community health’ as a priority)
Shortage occupation list
The Migration Advisory Committee has advised that ALL medical grades and specialties be added to the
Shortage Occupation List.
Cliona Ni Bhrolchain
BACCH Workforce Officer
clionanib@waitrose.com
BAPA update
Managing children with a hearing loss
Dear Colleagues
We are looking at the workforce and requirements for training among paediatricians who are involved in managing children with a hearing loss so that we can help improve services to these children.
We would be grateful if you could
complete the a short survey (it takes approximately 15 minutes).
Your responses will be very useful for our progress in this.
Please could you complete the survey by 23rd July 2019.
Thank you very much for your involvement.
Winifred Baddoo
Chair of BAPA
(British Association of Paediatricians in Audiology)
bapa@rcpch.ac.uk
External updates/reports/requests
Community Child Health CSAC Chair
RCPCH is seeking applications for the post of Chair for the CCH College Specialist Advisory Committee.
ROLE DETAILS
- To Chair the CSAC for CCH
- The CSAC Chair is responsible to the Vice President (Training & Assessment)
- Term of office: 2019-2022 (3 years initially with the option to extend for a maximum further two, subject to approval by Education and Training Divisional Committee)
ELIGIBILITY
Applications are now invited from Consultant Pediatricians in CCH, or equivalent, who are Honorary Fellows, Fellows or Ordinary Members of the College.
Further details on the role (PDF) and
how to apply are available on the RCPCH website.
Deadline to apply is 15 July.
Rare disease tea party - Wednesday, 10 July
The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit will be hosting its annual
rare disease tea party on Wednesday, 10 July. The event brings together stakeholders from across the rare disease community to hear young people and patient advocates speak about their experience of living with rare disease and working in the rare disease field.
Events
BACCH Events
Other events
Events held by groups affiliated to BACCH are highlighted below in yellow. Other meetings that may be of interest to BACCH members are also listed.
