September has hit most departments with a bang While we are all clinging on to the last vestiges of summer, attendances throughout the country have increased sharply. For the first time this Autumn, we will have a years' worth of paediatric specific attendance data at a national level in England. More work to do but great to have this visibility to support us all to advocate for our services and patients. We are still on cloud nine after a fantastic APEM PERUKI conference

Ian is one of leading forces in the development of PEM in UK. In 2000 as a single handed consultant at St Mary's he pioneered the opening of the UK's first dedicated children’s ED. Running a service with dedicated paediatric trainees (RMOs) that paved way for grid training. He helped establish APEM and was a founding figure in PERUKI; becoming the first Professor of Practice in Paediatric Emergency Medicine in the UK. His academic contribution encompasses hundreds of scienti

Take part in e-Delphi Consensus for the development of two national guidelines to aid assessment and investigation of children and young people under the age of 18 with suspected leukaemia and retinoblastoma. CCLG are looking for 50 further participants. Every response will help us develop these guidelines to speed up diagnosis of childhood cancer . Leukaemia: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham/delphi-leukaemia Retinoblastoma: https://app.onlinesurveys.

Following the excellent talk from Dr Marcolin and Dr Price at our annual PERUKI/APEM conference today (watch out for more conference updates coming in via social media and the website over the next few days) we would like to draw members to an amazing opportunity which we highlighted earlier in our summer blog update. Just in case people missed that… Follow the link here if you can’t access the QR code… https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnRJ0pbjeE0s_b661In1eNYwVosOZkZ

APEM is committed to helping promote national consistency, ongoing appraisal frameworks, credentialing and revalidation support for qualified ACPs. National Survey of Qualified ACP Governance in Paediatric Emergency & Urgent Care – Fill in form Our ACP lead Kate Blake has developed a short national scoping survey (<5mins) to try to establish what is currently happening across paediatric emergency and urgent care services. This seeks to capture the experience of qualified ACPs

The headline article on BBC news early last week highlights the shocking reality of 'Children as young as six going to A&E in mental health crisis'. The APEM Team fully endorses Dr Sam Jones' call for not only greater investment in children's mental health services but also improved training for staff from key agencies across health, social care and education in helping children who are struggling with their mental health. APeM members may be interested in participating in th

Summer arrived with a full agenda for children and young people’s urgent and emergency care. Autumn is round the corner and looks equally packed kicking off with the PERUKI/APEM conference in September. This update brings together the main areas of progress across the child advocacy and policy spaces since spring and highlights where members can get involved. We include a small snap shot of the upcoming academic and educational opportunities and the ongoing stakeholder work s

On Monday 15th June, the Government announced a ban on social media platforms for children under 16. This new policy also includes restrictions on live streaming and communication with strangers, extending to gaming platforms. These changes are expected to take effect in Spring 2027. The move responds to increasing evidence of the negative effects social media has on the physical and mental health of children and young people. Growing Concerns from Clinicians Clinicians have

APEM are pleased to see this position statement, developed by RCEM with input from APEM members, which calls on the government to provide clear legislation around the use of E-scooters. Key recommendations are as follows: Review of legislation to explore further measures to protect adults, children and young people from harm as a result of e-scooter use. Establish data collection and support research into e-scooter injuries including collaboration between health, education an

The events team have been hard at work and the most anticipated conference of the autumn season is open for booking now. Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to apemabstracts@gmail.com and to buy your tickets to the conference dinner after you sign up to the main event. Please also check our detailed travel/accommodation and bursaries guide All details below…

Two opportunities have been highlighted to APEM for contributions to important research. Dr Becca Ellison is working as Greener NHS fellow alongside RCPCH to understand how heat is affecting paediatric practice. The James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership about Childhood Fractures is working with PERUKI and wants to hear the opinions of any professionals, patients, parents/carers, or anyone who has ever broken a bone as a child. See below for how to contribute Sign U