Paediatrics for Primary Care (and anyone else)

Safety netting is one of the most important interventions in acute paediatrics, whether you work in Primary or Secondary Care.  When we give...

You may have noticed that there are a lot more paediatric sepsis guidelines flying around these days.  When people write guidelines, they ar...

I recently realised that my medical advice is not as good as it could be.  I tell parents and young people what will help their treatment ha...

“The delivery of good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible” Law 13 of ‘The House of God’ by Samuel Shem (1) As clinicians...

When I ask parents if they have seen their GP about an illness they often reply, “Yes but they didn't do anything.”  I am most encourag...