Chloe Macaulay

Chloe Macaulay
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Department of Paediatrics

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Conference Paper
Year 4 medical students undertake a ‘Long Term Conditions’ week as part of their Child Health block. Our aims were to help students develop cognitive empathy by appreciating the impact of chronic illness on patients and their families; whilst also exploring student understanding of healthcare system organisation. Students completed an activity call...
Conference Paper
Paediatrics is an undersubscribed medical speciality and figures suggest that interest continues to decline. Competition ratios for 2015 and 2016 entry to the Paediatric training programme at ST1 level were 1.9 and 1.6 respectively. Averaged across both Tier 1 and 2 rotas there was an increase in the vacancy rate from 12.1% in January 2015 to 14.9%...
Conference Paper
Aims LT clinics are joint educational clinics run by Paediatric and GP trainees, held within GP Training Practices (see also http://www.learningtogether.org.uk). Their aim is to improve outcomes for children and young people (CYP) via experiential joint learning. The aim of the evaluation was to test the case for national implementation by interrog...
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Although a great deal of paediatric consultations are not urgent, doctors in training spend so much time providing service for acute conditions that they spend little time focusing on outpatient work before they become a consultant. Engaging clinicians in the managerial aspects of providing clinical care is a key to improving outcomes, and this art...
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Methods: Activity data was collected from Training Practices hosting Learning Together. A computer based model was developed to analyse the costs of the Learning Together intervention compared to usual training in a partial economic evaluation. The results of the model were used to value the health gain required to make the intervention cost effec...
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Learning Together is primarily an educational intervention, where paediatric registrars [SpRs] and General Practice (GP) registrars [GPSTs] see children together in a primary care setting. Over a six month period in 2013/2014, 44 learning pairs were set up mainly in North East and Central London. Proof of concept for the model at scale was achieved...
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The key themes are: Participants are allocated a mentor who has particular experience in integrated care to help facilitate and support their work. They have the opportunity to present their projects at monthly “project surgery” workshops and receive review and feedback from the rest of the group. In addition, the mentors have reported valuable lea...
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Aims Clinical care is moving away from the hospital setting with more emphasis on integrated working, self-care, and care delivered more locally, by the right person at the right time1,2. As a result, training needs to anticipate the skills required for working in this different way. The Programme for Integrated Child Health (PICH) 2014/15, the fir...
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Once safeguarding concerns have been raised, a process is initiated with the sole aim of ensuring that a child’s well-being is preserved and they are protected from harm. This chapter will follow a child from when concerns are first raised through each step in the safeguarding process.
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It is every health professional’s responsibility to be able to identify and respond to child abuse. This book equips health professionals working with children with the knowledge to recognize at-risk children or those already suffering abuse. Child protection work is challenging both emotionally and strategically, and so practical advice on how to...
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Fever is the most common reason that parents seek medical advice for their child. Fever is often attributed to benign self-limiting viruses; however, it can be a sign of a serious and potentially life-threatening illness. A substantial amount of uncertainty still remains in this difficult area. Management is not simply a case of following the algor...
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Context Set in local GP Surgeries, integrated child health training clinics, for infants, children and young people under 18 years and parent/carers. The work involved secondary, community and primary care health care professionals: GP and Paediatirc Registrars, GPs, Consultant Paediatricians, Practice Nurses and Health Visitors. Problem Child heal...
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Background A significant number of children seen within secondary care, both in emergency departments, and also in out-patients, could be seen within a primary care setting (Saxena 2009, Milne 2010). Currently general paediatric postgraduate training programmes are focused on training paediatricians almost exclusively in hospital-based systems. RCG...
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Aims In April 2011, the RCPCH published ‘Facing the Future: A review of Paediatric Services’ which emphasised the need for urgent service reconfiguration and the development of innovative models of service provision. These changes will impact upon the future consultant workforce (current trainees). We aimed to discover trainees’ expectations of the...
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A Child Health Promotion programme has developed over the last century. Its remit and content has been revised and updated over the last 50 years. The current programme, the Healthy Child Programme, enshrined in law, offers a comprehensive schedule of checks, reviews and support from pregnancy to 19 years of age. This is the first nationally agreed...
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UCL's intercalated BSc (iBSc) in Paediatrics in Child Health began in 2010. The iBSc aims to further education in Paediatrics at an Undergraduate level, to promotoe academic paediatrics, and to excite a cohort of medical undergraduates about the possibilities of a career in Paediatrics by giving them learning opportunities and experiences not norma...

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