Royal College of GPs continues to promote quality adolescent care

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health
Article Date: 06 Mar 2005 - 10:00 PDT


The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) will encourage GPs to offer a more holistic approach to adolescent care at an event in London next week.

The conference Getting it right: challenging behaviours in teenagers in general practice takes place on Tuesday 8 March and addresses difficult areas which many GPs will have encountered including self-harm, eating disorders and drugs and alcohol.

The event is part of the highly successful 'Getting it Right' campaign, run by the RCGP Adolescent Task Group to make GP practices more 'teen-friendly'. One of the main aims of this event will be to encourage 'safeguarding' of young people in a confidential setting.

Dr Dick Churchill, a member of the RCGP Adolescent Task Group, said: "This event will illustrate the complexity of teenage problems. We find that difficulties do not exist in isolation. Adolescents do not usually present with just sexual health or mental health problems, they are often co-existent, and we need to take a holistic approach in their treatment. This important event will look at complex scenarios to demonstrate where health professionals can help and the limits to our interventions."

The event will include keynote speeches from Professor Keith Hawton, Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University and Dr John Coleman, Director for the Study of Adolescence in Brighton.

Delegates attending include GPs and practice nurses who will be take part in various workshops and look at case studies in panel discussions.

The full programme for this event can be viewed here extension.rcgp.org.uk/press/flyers/GettgitrightFlyer.pdf

For further information or to attend this event please contact Heather Whitney at the RCGP Press Office on 020 7344 3137 or email press@rcgp.org.uk

Notes to Editors

The RCGP Adolescent Task Group's Getting it right campaign, launched in 2002, has involved a series of training workshops, e-mail discussion groups and a publication sent to every practice in the country.

The Royal College of General Practitioners is the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom solely for GPs. It aims to encourage and maintain the highest standards of general medical practice and to act as the "voice" of GPs on issues concerned with education; training; research; and clinical standards. Founded in 1952, the RCGP has over 22,000 members who are committed to improving patient care, developing their own skills and promoting general practice as a discipline. http://www.rcgp.org.uk

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