Speakers
- Dr Elizabeth Whittaker
- Professor Shamez Ladhani
- Nalini Iyanger
- Dr Alison Kent
Date of Recording
February 28, 2024
Available Until
February 27, 2025
Key messages:
1) Measles epidemic in England and London - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
2) How to clinically diagnose measles
3) Differential diagnosis for measles
4) Management of measles in a hospital setting
5) Recommended actions for vulnerable groups (infants under one year, pregnant women and immunocompromised)
6) Measles vaccination – what you need to know
7) How to notify and public health actions for vulnerable and susceptible contacts – UKHSA
8) Infection prevention and control (IPC) and personal protective equipment (PPE)
9) Occupational health reminders for staff
Presentations:
Measles – a HPT perspective | Nalini Iyanger
Measles: Update for Paediatrics and A&E | Dr Liz Whittaker
Resources:
Measles guidance for primary, community care, emergency departments and hospital
Template letter to paediatrician oncologists and immunologists on measles
Don’t Forget the Bubbles: Skin Deep
Useful links
UKHSA national measles guidance
NICE Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS): Measles
The British Paediatric Allergy, Immunity and Infection Group (BPAIIG)
National Immunisation Programme: health equity audit 2021
Vaccination in the UK – position statement
Contacts:
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Vaccines in Practice
Welcome to the RCPCH Vaccines In Practice eLearning course. This course has been designed to primarily facilitate the development of skills in communicating the benefits of vaccination.
RCPCH webinar: Changing times in Paediatric Respiratory Infections
Lower respiratory tract infection is one of the commonest causes of paediatric hospital admission and ED attendance. The last few years have seen dramatic changes in circulating viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens as well as the publication of new evidence on antibiotic treatment of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections. This webinar will review the data alongside the management of complex pneumonia. In addition, it will focus on pneumonia as a presenting feature of immunodeficiency or other chronic condition and how to identify these patients.
Paediatric sepsis podcasts
Listen to real-world advice and guidance on how to manage paediatric sepsis.
Bacterial Meningitis & Meningococcal Septicaemia
This RCPCH Paediatric and Child Health Essentials: Bacterial Meningitis and Meningococcal Septicaemia eLearning module has been designed to primarily revise essential knowledge and understanding of the disease and gives learners the opportunity to access key components of the How to Manage course.
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However, you are still able to record as a CPD activity as you normally would, detailing what you have learned and how the learning will benefit your practice.
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Speakers
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Dr Elizabeth Whittaker
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant Chairperson | British Paediatric Allergy Infection and Immunity Group (BPAIIG)
Dr Liz Whittaker is Senior Clinical Lecturer in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology. She divides her time between Imperial College London and the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, St. Marys Hospital, London where she is a Consultant.
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Professor Shamez Ladhani
Professor of Paediatrics Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology within the Institute for Infection and Immunity | A Paediatric Infectious Disease Consultant at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Consultant Epidemiologist for the UK Health Security Agency
Professor Shamez Ladhani PhD MRCPCH(UK) MSc(distinction) MBBS(hons) BSc(hons) is a paediatric infectious diseases consultant at St. George’s Hospital, a professor in paediatric infectious diseases and vaccinology at St. George’s University of London and consultant epidemiologist at UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), where he is the clinical lead for a number of national vaccine preventable infections. He completed his medical training at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals, London, and his specialist paediatric infectious diseases training at St. George’s and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, London.
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Nalini Iyanger
Consultant in Health Protection
North West London HPT UKHSA
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Dr Alison Kent
Locum Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
I am a paediatric infectious diseases (PID) consultant at St Mary’s Hospital looking after children with unusual and severe infections and providing advice to referring hospitals across a large geographocal area. I have recently analysed data from the national survey of Group A streptococcal respiratory infections and complications during the 2022/23 iGAS surge. In addition to my PID training in London I have worked in Tanzania providing clinical care and conducting research on severe infections. I completed my MD(res) on optimising pneumococcal vaccination schedules in infants at St George’s, University of London.
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