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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

  1. Understanding mental health admissions to general paediatric settings: the MAPS study
  2. The experience of patients and caregivers with a paediatric hospital at home service
  3. How has paediatric chronic pain management changed over the last decade?
  4. Paracetamol overdose management: compliance with TOXBASE guidance and SNAP
  5. 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

  1. Acute medical risk in Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
  2. RSV burden on Ireland’s tertiary children’s hospitals: winter 2023/24
  3. Local Child Health Teams increase healthcare access for children with deprivation and unmet need
  4. 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