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BAGP & GAPRUKI specialty session
The General Paediatrician: Innovate, Integrate and Inspire
The BAGP and GAPRUKI session at the RCPCH Conference 2025.
MAR
27
Thursday 27 March 2025
1:45pm to 4:00pm
Where: RCPCH Conference 2025
Guest speakers
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Professor Steve Turner
RCPCH President
Consultant Paediatrician in General and Respiratory Paediatrics, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

Dr Marianne Leach
BAGP President
Consultant Acute General Paediatrician / Ambulatory care, St George’s University Hospital. MRCPCH, MD, MSc Clinical Paediatrics, MA Strategic Clinical Leadership, Chartered Manager FCMI.
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Dr Lee Hudson
MAPS study
Clinical Associate Professor, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health; Consultant General Paediatrician, Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Programme
Session 1
Chairs: Dr Katrina Cathie & Prof Colin Powell
1:45 – 1:50
5 mins
Session
Introduction and welcome
BAGP & GAPRUKI
1:50 – 2:10
15 + 5 mins
Talk
Innovate, Integrate, Inspire: pioneering the future of General Paediatrics
Dr Marianne Leach
2:10 – 2:30
15 + 5 mins
Talk
Mental health acute admissions to paediatric wards: results from the MAPS study
Dr Lee Hudson
2:30 – 3:05
5 × 7 mins
Oral presentations
Oral presentations
- Understanding mental health admissions to general paediatric settings: the MAPS study
- The experience of patients and caregivers with a paediatric hospital at home service
- How has paediatric chronic pain management changed over the last decade?
- Paracetamol overdose management: compliance with TOXBASE guidance and SNAP
- Parental anxiety and family functioning during whole genome sequencing for undiagnosed rare conditions
Session 2
Chairs: Dr Louisa Pollock & Dr Pramodh Vallabhaneni
3:05 – 3:35
4 × 7 mins
Oral presentations
Oral presentations
- Acute medical risk in Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
- RSV burden on Ireland’s tertiary children’s hospitals: winter 2023/24
- Local Child Health Teams increase healthcare access for children with deprivation and unmet need
- Trends in severe enterovirus infection in infants in the West of Scotland, 2019–2023
3:35 – 3:50
10 + 5 mins
Talk
Adapting the way we work to meet today’s needs
Professor Steve Turner, RCPCH President
3:50 – 3:55
5 mins
Prizes
Prize-giving: the two best oral presentations
Professor Steve Turner
3:55 – 4:00
5 mins
Session
BAGP and GAPRUKI: how to get involved
BAGP & GAPRUKI
4:00
Session
Close and coffee
Past sessions
RCPCH Conference · 27 March 2024
Your Future General Paediatrician: empowered, collaborative and impactful
RCPCH Spring Meeting · 2002