About this event
- Date and time Tue 10 Jun 2025 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Location Online
- Organised by Paediatrics and Child Health
Join us for a webinar dedicated to advancing paediatric-to-adult clinical transition services. This unique opportunity brings together leading experts, healthcare providers, patients, and families to explore the challenges and successes of this critical stage of care.
What to Expect
- Insights from Experts: Hear from specialists in cardiology, psychiatry, neurodisability, and other fields as they share strategies for preparing paediatric patients to transition to adult care.
- Patient and Family Perspectives: Gain valuable insights from first-hand accounts about what works, what doesn鈥檛, and what matters most to those experiencing the transition.
- Panel Discussions: Participate in dynamic conversations led by experts in service design and development on how to create or enhance transition services that truly meet patient needs.
- Comprehensive Exploration: Understand current challenges and discover innovative approaches to improving continuity of care during this crucial period.
This event is ideal for healthcare professionals looking to improve outcomes for transitioning patients, whether you're designing, delivering, or supporting paediatric-to-adult transition services.
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Submission deadline: Sunday 9 February 2025
Open to: Students and paediatrics trainees
Prize:
First prize: 拢250
Second prize: 拢150
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Agenda
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Introduction and welcome
Dr Daniel Cromb, President, Paediatrics & Child Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine听and Dr Nikita Punjabi, Council member, Paediatrics & Child Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Morning session: What are the current barriers to successful transition? The patient perspective and examples from individual specialities
Chairs: Dr Daniel Cromb and Dr Nikita Punjabi
Paediatrics to adult transition - the patient perspective
Patients and their families
Paediatric to adult health care transition - what does the current research tell us?
Lynda Shaughnessy, Lead Cardiac Nurse, Evelina London Children's Hopsital and Co-clinical Direction of the Lifelong CHD network
Transition of young adults to adult services in haematology
Dr Mamta Sohal, Consultant Haematologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Dr Kirstin Lund, Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Comfort break
Adolescent responsive healthcare: A practical approach to welcoming young people to adult services
Dr Rachel Tattersall FRCP, PhD, Consultant Adolescent and Adult Rheumatologist, Co-Chair of HiHASC (Hyperinflammation and HLH Across Speciality Collaboration), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSFT
Navigating psychiatric care from adolescence to adulthood
Dr Shashank Sivaji, Addiction Psychiatry Registrar Specialty Trainee Year 5, South Ayrshire Treatment & Recovery Team
Panel discussion
Lunch
Annual general meeting for section members only
Afternoon session 1: President's Prize presentations
Introduction
Chairs: Dr Daniel Cromb and Dr Nikita Punjabi
A rare case of recurrent pyloric stenosis
Sophie Lee
Plastic bronchitis
Vidhisha Sharma听
Bile duct perforation: A rare cause of pale stools
Dr Connor Brett, Paediatric Speciality Trainee Year 2, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Unseen trauma: Lessons from a paediatric case of PTSD
Rasha Rashid, Medical Student, Imperial College School of Medicine
Paediatrics to adult transition - the patient perspective
Patients and their families
Comfort break
Afternoon session 2: What does the future hold?
Chairs: Dr Daniel Cromb and Dr Nikita Punjabi
Practical tips on approaching the topic of transition with young people in the clinic setting
Dr Claudia Gore, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Transforming transitions for young people with complex needs
Dr Hema Palanyiaya, Consultant in Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics, Evelina London Children鈥檚 Services
How to set up paediatric-to-adult transition service
Miss Bethan Williams, Roald Dahl Transition Coordinator, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Panel discussion
President's Prize - winner announcement
Closing remarks
Location
Online
Registration for this event will close at 8:00am on 10 June 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter鈥檚 and RSM鈥檚 discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed鈥痠n future on various internet channels.