Spotting the Sick Child

The Spotting the Sick Child website supports healthcare professionals in the assessment of the acutely sick child. It has over five hours of video footage of real patients, focusing on seven common symptoms, with options to save videos for your own development or for teaching others.

Logo: Spotting the Sick Child, with illustration of a chlid

Users will learn how to assess seven common symptoms:

  • difficulty in breathing
  • fever
  • rash
  • fits
  • dehydration
  • abdominal pain
  • head injury.

The website has also been given a complete overhaul and user navigation has been greatly improved. We expect this resource to continue providing free, high quality learning to all healthcare professionals for years to come.

Spotting the Sick Child is an interactive tool commissioned by the Department of Health and Health Education England to support health professionals in the assessment of the acutely sick child.

Go to Spotting the Sick Child website

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