9.30 am Registration, tea and coffee

Chair:Dr Chris Verity, Vice President , Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health

10.00 am Introduction

How NICE develops guidelines for children – Dr Monica Lakhanpaul, Co-director National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health, London, Senior Lecturer in Child Health, University of Leicester

10.30 am Epilepsy – Dr Amanda Freeman, Member of Guideline Development Group, Epilepsy, Consultant Paediatrician, St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth

11.10 am Coffee break

11.40 am Urinary tract infection in children – Dr Kate Verrier-Jones, Chair UTIC guideline, Previously Reader in Child Health, Cardiff University

12.20 pm Obesity – Dr Penny Gibson, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Surrey Community Health Services and RCPCH Obesity Advisor

1.00 pm Lunch

Chair:Dr Theo Fenton, President of Section of Paediatrics & Child Health, Royal Society of Medicine

2.00 pm Feverish illness in children – Dr Martin Richardson, Chairman of Guideline Development Group, Feverish Illness in Children, Consultant Paediatrician, Peterborough District Hospital

2.40 pm Diarrhoea and vomiting in children under 5 – Professor Terence Stephenson, Professor of Child Health, University of Nottingham and
Vice President for Science & Research, Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health and Dr Kate Armon, Consultant Paediatrician, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

3.20 pm Completion of evaluation forms

3.25 pm How NICE can help the work of paediatricians in the future – Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

4.05 pm Close of meeting

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

No