Young People's Health Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
United Kingdom
Joined December 2011
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The call for #IAHW2024 @IAAHglobal youth ambassadors is out!
Please spread the word! @AYPHcharity @yphsig @acamh @Adolescent_Hlth @CforAH @adolnetworkni @AWAInitiative @Susie8_Love @AdolHealthIAP
Anyone 16-24 can apply
Link below👉🏽
#bethevoice
IAHW Youth Ambassadors help to identify key issues important to young people and create projects to promote these issues on a global scale.
Application link 👉🏽 bit.ly/49MBQ3N
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Today I am publishing new research which shows that the vast majority of children in care are not getting access to the advocacy they're entitled to.
This is unacceptable - every child should feel that their voice is being heard.
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Key stat in today’s suicide update from @ONS is about young people.
Suicide rates in young age groups rose steadily from c.2010. They have been a top prevention priority.
New figs confirm a different trend. Rates since 2018 are stable - not falling but the rise has stopped.
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Greatly looking forward to the 15th EIP conference starting tomorrow and speaking at the #adolescentmedicine #mentalhealth session @HBSCStudy
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To learn more, join our NSCA for an upcoming webinar on November 2, 9 a.m. PT, where they will discuss the research into adolescents’ sense of purpose from their new council report coming out later this month. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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🔎We are looking for children/young people with diagnosed chronic musculoskeletal conditions to participate in a study exploring lived experiences of #ChronicPain
📱Interested? More info can be found here tinyurl.com/RIPPLE-PIS 📷
✉️Or email [email protected]
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Today we are launching two reports exploring care leavers’ experiences of health inequalities among young people aged 10-25
One report looks at available data📉 and the second shares the views of young people📢
Find out more here: ayph.org.uk/understanding-he…
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Fantastic work by medical student @hannahsyha on presenting in the Elizabeth Molyneux stream at #APEMasc
Do 16-17 years prefer to be admitted to adult or children's wards?
[Approached over 90 young people attending our department @Leic_hospital !]
#RCEMasc
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@yphsig @DrOrlaWalsh @sarahcrichard @kate_murt @Susie8_Love @dr_smullen @PsyMedicine @AYPHcharity @adolnetworkni @GPsforYP
Please spread the word and stay tuned for more updates!
Attention Attention!!! Starting in 2024, IAHW will move from March to October! Mark your calendars! #IAHW2024
Protein shakes should have warnings, coroner says after death of teenager and calls for greater clarity about who is responsible for the NHS care of older teenagers 16-18yrs - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/A-weDaaslRPm1aNkC…
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Proudly presenting their work with Young people at #RCPCH2023 More examples of brilliant interventions to provide developmentally appropriate healthcare @yphsig @ImperialNHS @CC4CLondon
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A 15-year-old girl p/w fever & sore throat. She had recently gone to an outdoor music festival & shared multiple drinks & cigarettes w/ friends, who had similar symptoms. No hx of cough. Exam w/palatial petechiae. Smear w/atypical lymphocytes. What is the likely diagnosis? #MedEd
E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts | Tobacco Control tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/conte…
Optimising adolescent wellbeing in a digital age | The BMJ “requires …action. Removing barriers to digital access for adolescents, equipping them with digital literacy and skills, and giving them opportunities to shape their digital environments.” bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2021…
SAHM News – @SAHMtweets have made an important statement on healthcare for gender diverse AYA and violence and aggression towards youth and their healthcare providers. adolescenthealth.org/SAHM-Ne…
Who’s heading to the @RCPCHtweets #rcpch23 conference in Glasgow? Come join us at the joint session with British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology on Thu 25 May. rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/even…
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Part time locum consultant in adolescent medicine at UCLH @uclh @yphsig @AYPHcharity advert out!
uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/cur…
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What a #youthvoice week!
*Sat- @SickleCellUK children on NHS Jobs
*Tues- @NACAPaudit @asthmalunguk young people/parents/carers/adults on #asthma
*Wed- @epilepsy_12 young people on #EpilepsyAwareness
*Thurs- @RCPCHtweets #ClimateChange young people
+ 1:1s with young volunteers😊
