Calling Bucks General Practice Respiratory and Paediatric Teams
Respiratory Illness in Childhood – Better Care for Better Outcomes
Date: Wednesday 19th November (PTL Day)
Place: Holiday Inn Aylesbury, HP22 5QT
Start time: 13.30
Finish time: 17.00
Buffet lunch available from 12.30.
Led by Dr Duncan Keeley, GP, Dr Craig McDonald, Consultant Paediatrician, Stoke Mandeville and
Jane Setchell, Nurse Practitioner.
Who is the meeting for?
GPs and practice nurses with an interest in respiratory and paediatric care. The meeting will be
particularly valuable for those taking a lead in providing respiratory care in practices.
Why come?
We know that there is room for improvement in the way we look after children with respiratory
problems. Come and help identify and share the main changes we could make to improve outcomes
for these children and their families. The principal focus will be on asthma and other wheezing
disorders with special emphasis on the difficult problem of wheezy illness in pre-school children.
The meeting will be highly interactive and will focus on how to get the main messages for improving
care understood and shared by practice teams.
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Update on the diagnosis and
management of common childhood
respiratory problems
Meet and network with other GPs and
Nurses with a respiratory interest
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Take away materials and PowerPoint
presentations for use in your own
practices
Share the local care pathways for
children with acute asthma and
wheeze
This programme is supported by Dr Juliet Sutton (Aylesbury Vale CCG) and Dr Dal Sahota (Chiltern
CCG).
For a detailed programme see attachment
To book places please reply as soon as possible to:
Rebecca Furlong, Quality Improvement Lead, Thames Valley Area Team Strategic Clinical Network rebecca.furlong@nhs.net . LAST CHANCE THERE ARE A FEW PLACES LEFT CLOSING DATE 14.11.14
Don’t miss this half day meeting! Attendance is free.
Respiratory Illness in Childhood – Better Care for
Better Outcomes
Date: Wednesday 19th November (PTL Day)
Place: Holiday Inn Aylesbury HP22 5QT
Start time: 13.30
Finish time: 17.00
Meeting Programme
Buffet lunch provided from 12.30
During lunch - Initial demonstration of teaching powerpoint, video material and specimen
self-management plans.
13.30
13.45
Introductions, Aims and Objectives
13.45
14.00
Respiratory illness in children – variations in care
14.00
14.30
Diagnosis – getting it right
14.30
14.45
Discussion
14.45
15.15
Assessment and management of acute episodes
15.15
15.30
Discussion
15.30
16.00
Therapeutics – effective treatment of continuing symptoms
16.00
16.15
Tea and Discussion
16.15
16.45
Regular review and self-management plans for patient empowerment
16.45
17.00
Discussion
The formal meeting will finish at 5pm but the facilitators will be present until 6pm for those who
wish to stay for further discussion, networking and demonstration of teaching materials.
Session Facilitators
Dr Duncan Keeley has been a GP in Thame for 20 years. Before that he worked as a paediatrician in
London and Zimbabwe. He has a longstanding interest in respiratory primary care and is on the
Executive Committee of the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK.
Dr Craig McDonald is consultant paediatrician at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He has a respiratory
interest and trained in Oxford with the Paediatric Respiratory Team.
Jane Setchell is Lead Nurse for the Central Locality of Aylesbury Vale CCG and a Nurse Practitioner at
the Cross Keys Practice. She has previous experience working in Children’s Emergency Departments.