Children with chronic constipation often cycle through ED with invasive treatment that doesn't fix the problem. A rapid-access nurse-led pathway cut admissions from 19% to 10% and invasive procedures by 59% — saving £106k too. Read more: bit.ly/4xsDfaD

All paediatric healthcare staff should be upskilled in early recognition and management of conflict, and have access to expert safeguarding support, palliative care and clinical ethical advice. This recently published prospective pre-post service evaluation of a 10-ward UK children’s hospital found that a bundle of hospital-wide interventions was associated with reduction in conflict and tension. An interactive e-learning package “Recognising and managing conflict between children’s families and healthcare providers” was launched in 2024 and is available freely for all National Health Service staff in the UK to access via: bit.ly/4citV0I Read more about the interventions here: bit.ly/4slzi51

🆕 ⏰ ADC (Archimedes) podcast - The boring and bladders 🎙️ If you’ve got debris on a bladder ultrasound, that means there’s a UTI, doesn’t it? This month, we have a team of crack nephrologists looking in detail at floaty bits and bacteria being spotted by soundwaves: bit.ly/4ea9zcD We also bemoan the problem of wanting to smooth things out too quickly and make everyone do the same thing unnecessarily. Diversity and difference are sometimes a superpower! bit.ly/3QHs8ec 📻 Listen via the links below: ▶️ Apple: apple.co/4sDfUkk ▶️ Web: bit.ly/4cp0HNv

Celebrating 100 years of Archives of Disease in Childhood 💯 Our video montage thanking our readers, authors, reviewers and editorial team throughout the last hundred years to improve child health. What a journey our community has been on youtu.be/dT4Fm23WKMY?si=BLLg…

ADC Centenary of Innovations in Child Health Learn about the past to advocate for the future. Visit our repository mapping our shared journey over the last 100 years adc.bmj.com/pages/adc-centen…

First century: Most cited papers in Archives of Disease in Childhood As we celebrate the 100 years of ADC, let's look at the most cited papers by decades. Fascinating sample at the progress made in the last century. adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…

Can we reduce conflict and tension across a whole children’s hospital? Bundle of 5 multimodal interventions: (1) Training >400 staff in early recognition and intervention of conflict (2) Clinical Ethics Advisory Group, (3) Palliative care services for all children, (4) Safeguarding surgeries and ward-based support for staff (5) Senior MDT hub to advise teams when tension escalate Pre-post service evaluation 🇬🇧 adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…

Archimedes Does the presence of bladder debris suggest urine infection in children? adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…

Happy New Year to all our readers, authors and reviewers. 2026 is Archives of Disease in Childhood's 100th year 🎁 To celebrate 100 years we have commissioned articles looking back at the tribulations and achievements of our community. Our centenary page will be updated as contributions come in adc.bmj.com/pages/adc-centen…

Viewpoint Standardising medicines in digital paediatric discharge summaries to improve safety In UK, >11 different Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) in use when children discharged from hospital. Information produced limited for optimal transfer of care. adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…

Wishing all our readers, authors and reviewers a wonderful festive break. Thank for striving to improve the lives of children and families every day In the New Year we will be celebrating the centenary of our journal Archives of Disease and Childhood 1926-2026 💯