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RECOVERY trial to begin enrolling children and infants
7 May 2020
The national clinical trial to identify treatments that may be beneficial for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 will begin recruiting children and infants in May 2020.
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BPSU study - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome, Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome
Surveillance of multisystem inflammatory syndrome has now commenced. Our aim is to understand the incidence, presenting features, laboratory features, management, clinical course and the outcome of this potentially new syndrome characterised by hyperinflammation which is temporally associated with C...
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We announce the winners for our Research Awards 2020
29 April 2020
This year we offered three awards for involvement in paediatric research, The Lorber Award, The Simon Newell award and the PIER prize. We are proud to announce this years winners of these coveted awards.
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BPSU 'snap-shot' survey - delayed presentations to hospitals
The COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns that children are, for various reasons, presenting late to emergency departments. This has led to delayed diagnosis and hence a delay in treatment. Such presentation delays are well known, but they appear to have increased during this pandemic. Unfortunately, th...
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What impact is COVID-19 having on child health services?
15 April 2020
RCPCH is launching a new data collection and reporting tool to track the impact of COVID-19 on child health services. Dr Jay and Professor Bishop explain why it is so important to capture changes to services during this period.
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COVID-19 - message from the President, 9 April
9 April 2020
We've been working on providing guidance to help you and our services cope and adjust to what we knew was coming, and we now have up-to-date information on research and surveillance, plus tips and tools for wellbeing in this period. Russell addresses members in his weekly message.
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BPSU study to look at neonatal complications of COVID-19
1 April 2020
The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit has now started collecting data on neonatal complications of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the UK and Northern Ireland. This study is needed to understand the impact of Coronavirus infection in newborn babies and babies born to mothers with Coronavirus, s...
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BPSU study - Neonatal complications of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Surveillance of the neonatal complications of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) commenced in March 2020. The study aims to find out how many babies develop coronavirus infection in the first month after birth, and how many babies born to women with coronavirus need neonatal care; describe which babies ...
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COVID-19
From early 2020, we looked at the risks and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our members, the wider child health workforce and children and young people. We produced guidance around health services, the paediatric workforce, training and CPD, and are now contributing to the UK's COVID-19 Inquiry....