On-demand: Practical Update on Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2025
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- Aimed at Consultants, Registrars and Staff Grades working in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Paediatrics.
- Format: Short theory lectures followed by interactive Q&A sessions
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RCPCH has approved this activity for CPD in accordance with the current RCPCH CPD Guidelines
Certificate issued for 18 study hours (6 per day)
DAY ONE - The link between Physical and Mental Health
65 minutes
A child focused approach to the medical management of eating disorders
Dr Ian Rodd
Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Hampshire County Hospital
- Rates and differential diagnosis before, during and since COVID
- Eating Disorders (focussed on Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID) and Disordered Eating
- Other physical health comorbidities including Diabetes
- Refeeding syndrome – an approach to risk and management
- Controversies and strategies in the approach to acute hospital admission
25 minutes
Medical late effects of Eating Disorders
Dr Ian Rodd
Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Hampshire County Hospital
- Long term outcomes
- Medium and long term effects on growth, puberty and fertility
- Bone health
45 minutes
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(ME/CFS) and Long Covid in children and young people- update and practical tips
Dr Terry Segal
Consultant in General Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University College London Hospital
- Common presentations and investigations
- On the path to recovery – setbacks/relapses
- CBT – anxiety or low mood or difficulty with change
- When to refer to the neurologist
45 minutes
Haematology
Dr Suhas Hydros
Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, St George’ Hospital, London
- Red and white cells and mental health
- Sickle cell disease and Thalassemia and the challenges for the psychiatrist
- Depression and anxiety secondary to hematologcial malignancies
- Multidisciplinary and psychological interventions for the chronically ill child
45 minutes
Neurology
Dr Rachel Howells
Consultant Paediatrician in Acute Paediatrics / Neurology
Royal Devon University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
- Epilepsy and pseudoseizures
- Headaches and migraine
- Impact of psychiatric medications
- When to refer to the neurologist
45 minutes
Functional neurological disorder (FND)
Dr Naomi Phillips
- Making sense of Functional Neurological Disorder
- Potential overlap with other disorders, diagnosis, and treatment avenues
- The window of tolerance and “body up” strategies for emotional regulation
- Reflective practice groups for physical health teams
45 minutes
Emotion dysregulation and personality disorders
Dr Alessio Bellato
Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Southampton,
Honorary Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
- The origin of emotion dysregulation
- The link with emerging BPD
- The link with neurodevelopmental disorders
- Prevention and early intervention
45 minutes
Sexual Health
Dr Alex Edwards
Consultant in Community Sexual and Reproductive Health, The Wolverton Centre, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
- Puberty and mental health
- Menstrual cycle and teenage pregnancy – effects on mental health
- Contraception
- STDs – risk management, common and uncommon manifestations, where to send them next
DAY TWO - Lessons, opportunities and challenges ahead for your clinical practice.
45 minutes
Education and Mental Health
Dr Carlos Hoyos
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- The interaction between education and mental health
- Non-attendance and risk of self-harm and suicidal ideation
- The impact of mental health problems on school attainment
- The need for an effective link between schools and mental health services
40 minutes
Working with families who have complex trauma
Dr Nicola Cosgrave
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, National & Specialist CAMHS, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Child maltreatment and its impact on child mental health and development
- Attachment focused interventions
- Adaptations to clinical practice
50 minutes
Ethnicity and mental health inequalities:
Dr Alice Debelle
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Lessons from the pandemic
- Barriers to accessing mental health care
- Ethnic differences in psychiatric diagnoses
- Risk of suicide in children from ethnic minorities
35 minutes
Digital technology and mental health
Dr Mariana Pinto Da Costa
Senior Lecturer, Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Medicine,
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London
- The new opportunities
- Telehealth to monitor mental health and deliver care
- Electronic health records, electronic prescription, sensors, smartphone apps, robots.
- Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
45 minutes
Legal frameworks in child and adolescent mental health
Dr Suyog Dhakras
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
- Updates on legal aspects in CAMHS
- Legal frameworks for eating disorders
- Legal frameworks for intellectual disabilities and autism
- Managing complex cases in Emergency Department
45 minutes
Child and adolescent mental health The challenges ahead
Dr Valeria Parlatini
Associate Professor/Hon Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Southampton/Solent NHS Trust
- Lessons learned from the Covid pandemic
- New opportunities and challenges in clinical practice
- Moving forward
DAY THREE - Advances in managing ADHD
45 minutes
ADHD and ASD
Prof. Emily Simonoff
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of Department Director,
King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience,
King's College London.
- Differential diagnosis and co-comorbidities – the dilemmas
- Associated mental health issues
- Treatment plans
- Practical cases and how they are being managed
45 minutes
Dilemmas on clinical assessments
Dr Violeta Perez Rodriguez
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- When parents and teachers have different views
- Screening measures and parents’ narratives – the discrepancies
- Benefits and pitfalls of school observations
- Children with complex social background
45 minutes
Transition - the challenges
Dr Nicoletta Adamo
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
- Evolution and persistence of ADHD in adulthood
- Importance of transition
- Options and key issues with transition
- When it is a good time to plan transition
45 minutes
ADHD in the child with intellectual disability
Dr Matthew Fernando
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Diagnosis in children with moderate/severe disability
- The non-verbal child
- Multiple morbidities – multiple challenges
- Medication trial and sensitivity to side effects
45 minutes
ADHD and the looked after/abused child
Dr Rani Samuel
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Biological aspects and social context in symptom manifestation
- Effects of exposure to drugs/alcohol in pregnancy
- Assessing the impact of early life adverse experiences
- Abuse as cause or effect of ADHD
45 minutes
Dilemmas on stimulant treatment
Prof Sam Cortese
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Southampton
- The challenges
- Children with personal/family history of cardiac abnormalities
- Drug of abuse and stimulants
- When stimulants are not the right medication
45 minutes
TICS and Tourette's syndrome and ADHD
Dr Holan Liang
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Honorary Associate Professor,
UCL Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department
- Tics, Tourette’s syndrome and functional tics
- What movements may be confused with tics?
- Common co-morbidities
- Initial assessment, management and treatment
Aimed at
Aimed at Consultants, SAS, STs working in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Paediatrics.
About the course
This must attend Infomed online course has been organised in response to calls and suggestions from many child and adolescent psychiatrists and paediatricians who have attended the paediatric mental health and child and adolescent psychiatry updates in the last few years, and are now in need of an update targeting the multifaceted needs of their professions. When we first ran this course last April, it had excellent feedback from delegates. This three-day comprehensive online course, under the direction of Dr Valeria Parlatini, comprises a faculty of top experts, who are recognised nationally and internationally
The course will run over three days:
- The first day will address the link between physical and mental health and the management of mental health problems in the context of complex medical conditions or disabilities.
- The second day will focus on the post Covid implications for child and adolescent mental health, and changes in clinical practice.
- The third day will be dedicated to advances in our understanding and management of ADHD, one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders.
By the end of the course, you will have:
- A better understanding of the link between physical and mental health conditions and more confidence in the management of mental disorders in children with complex medical problems.
- A clear insight into post-pandemic changes in clinical practice and a sense of direction on how clinical services are evolving.
- A deeper awareness on how ADHD may present in the context of complex comorbidities or challenging social context, and more confidence in its management.
Course director
Dr Valeria Parlatini
Dr Valeria Parlatini is an associate professor and honorary consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Southampton/Solent NHS Trust. Her research aims at the identification of predictors of mental health outcomes that can be used to personalise and improve clinical care, especially for children and adults with ADHD.
During her PhD in Biological Psychiatry at King’s College London, she investigated predictors of treatment response in adult ADHD, primarily using neuroimaging techniques. As an appreciation of her research, she received three international awards, including the Young Scientists Award at the World Congress on ADHD.
During her clinical lectureship at King’s College London and Maudsley Hospital, she was awarded the Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant to carry out epidemiology research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and young people under CAMHS.
Faculty members
Dr Alessio Bellato
Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Southampton,
Honorary Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Prof Sam Cortese
Professor Cortese is also an Honorary Consultant for Solent NHS Trust. He is also Adjunct Full Professor with New York University (NYU).
His main research interest are around neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on ADHD using advanced evidence synthesis methods to address clinically relevant questions.
He has published more than 300 peer-review papers, including first author papers in prestigious journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Psychiatry, World Psychiatry and the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Professor Cortese is Consulting Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Deputy Editor for Evidence Based Mental Health and sits on the editorial board of other 4 international journals.
He is the Chair of the European ADHD Guidelines Group, co-chair of the British Association of Psychopharmacology-child and adolescent psychiatry module, and member of the child and adolescent psychiatry faculty of the European Collegium of Neuropsychopharmacology.
As main or co-applicant, he has secured external funding of more than £ 10 M, from the European Research Commission, National Institute of Healthcare and Research (NIHR) and Medical research Council (MRC).
Furthermore, in 2022, Prof. Cortese was listed as one of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade in the field of psychiatry/psychology in 2021.
Dr Nicola Cosgrave
Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and visiting senior research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Kings College London. Nicola has spent most of her career working in child mental health services at the Maudsley Hospital. Her clinical and research interests are in the area of child maltreatment, and she has been an expert witness in the family courts for many years. Nicola is passionate about improving the mental health outcomes for children and families who have experienced trauma, she is the UK trainer for Child Parent Psychotherapy, and Vice-Chair of the Board, Parent Infant Foundation.
Dr Alice Debelle
Dr Debelle is a consultant psychiatrist working in an adolescent team in Greenwich CAMHS.
She completed her core and higher psychiatry training at South London and Maudsley, where she experienced patchy education on inequalities, despite the demographics of the community the Trust serves. She became more vocal on this within the institution and joined with other like-minded folks to discuss action for change.
She met with the Trust's chair, Sir Norman Lamb several times, who still reaches out to her on these matters, despite her abandoning the Trust!
She likes to think with others about how diverse individuals can become equally motivated to form coalitions for change.
She collaborated with the Royal College race equality leads in addressing the inclusion of acute behavioural disturbance in the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines and participated in Schwartz Rounds and Grand Rounds on these topics.
Dr Suyog Dhakras
Suyog is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist working in Southampton at the Brookvale Adolescent Service (for 14-18 years). He leads the provision of assertive outreach and intensive community packages of care for young people with acute and severe mental illness. Suyog also works as Consultant to the Local Authority through the BRS, which is a multi-agency service for children in care who need coordination of the multi-agency input due to their complex needs. As a part of this work, Suyog also leads the Forensic Community CAMHS Project for Southampton City and the New Forest. He is the Training Programme Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Specialty Training Rotation across the Wessex region (Wessex Deanery).
Dr Alex Edwards
Dr Alex Edwards, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, The Wolverton Centre, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
Alex is a consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health working across integrated sexual health and gynaecology in Kingston Hospital.
Within her consultant role she is lead for safeguarding and the vulval pain service. Special clinical interests include paediatric and adolescent gynaecology, menopause, complex contraception and more widely the biopsychosexual impacts of therapeutic sex hormone use.
Dr Matthew Fernando
Dr Matt Fernando is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Fernando works clinically in a specialist service for children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions. He has led development of local ADHD pathways, including training clinicians in assessment and diagnosis, and setting up a medication review clinic. Dr Fernando also has a particular interest in the interactions between complex epilepsy and neurodevelopmental conditions, having previously had a clinical role with the charity Young Epilepsy.
Dr Rachel Howells
Rachel Howells is a Consultant Paediatrician in Exeter where she is the lead for the local epilepsy service for children and runs a secondary care neurology clinic.
She is a trainer in epilepsy for the BPNA.
She developed an interest in headache as a clinical lecturer in paediatrics 20 years ago, and with a few other UK headache specialists, she developed headache training for paediatricians, most importantly the British Paediatric Neurology Association CHAT courses which have been running for 11 years, and has trained over a 1000 paediatricians in the UK and now abroad.
Running a secondary care neurology service has brought her into close contact with young people with mental health problems and functional neurological disorders.
Nicoletta Adamo
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
Dr Suhas Hydros
Dr Suhas Hydros has been a CAMHS Liaison Consultant at the St Thomas Hospital in London.
Over the past 3 years he has been working closely with paediatric colleagues at the Evelina managing medical conditions with psychiatric comorbidities.
He also managed the psychiatric side of the 22q11 service during his stint at the unit.
Dr Holan Liang
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department.
Dr Naomi Phillips
Naomi is an ST6 in CAMHS. She is currently working in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Forensic CAMHS Team. Naomi has a special interest in Functional Neurological Disorder and during her CAMHS liaison post at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth she set up a pilot Functional Seizures clinic. Naomi is currently undertaking an NHS England (South East) Multiprofessional Simulation Fellowship through Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Her project is to organise a multiprofessional simulation training day called ‘Functional Neurological Disorder Across the Lifespan’ which will take place on the 21st of March.
Dr Mariana Pinto Da Costa
Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She is also an Auxiliar Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar at the University Porto.
Mariana also teaches and supervise undergraduate students across King’s Health Partners, and supervises PhD and MSc students at King’s College London and at the University of Porto
As part of her doctoral research in London, in consultation with people with mental illness and community volunteers, she developed an intervention ‘Phone Pal’ to remotely connect patients and volunteers over a smartphone. For this work she was awarded a Fellowship by the World Association of Social Psychiatry.
She is a frequent reviewer for several journals and funding bodies and a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Psychiatry. She has published over 100 articles in prestigious journals such as The Lancet Psychiatry, the BMJ, World Psychiatry, and Nature.
Dr Ian Rodd
Ian is a consultant general paediatrician, and has worked as a consultant in Winchester for 20 years. In the last 10 years he has focussed much of his thinking, learning and work on the evolving need for better services for young people with Eating Disorders, and he now has 1 day a week of Eating disorders in his Job Plan funded by his trust and his colleagues in the local eating disorders service.
Dr Carlos Hoyos
Carlos Hoyos is a consultant Child and Adolescent psychiatrist in Hampshire and a senior lecturer in medical education in Winchester University. He has been a child psychiatrist and an educator for over 25 years.
Carlos trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley and UCL and in the 90s he trained in child psychiatry at the Tavistock.
He is currently lead undergraduate curriculum development lead for Hampshire and Isle of White Healthcare Trust.
He runs the undergraduate psychiatry module in Southampton medical school and is setting up the psychiatry modules in the new Portsmouth Medical School.
Dr Violeta Perez Rodriguez
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Violeta Perez is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in community mental health services in Southwark. Dr Perez trained as a psychiatrist in Vall D’Hebron University Hospital, a centre renowned for its All-Age ADHD Department, and was actively involved in the diagnosis and treatment of young people and adults with ADHD working alongside internationally renowned experts in the field.
Dr Perez led the development of the local ADHD Diagnosis Clinic in Merton CAMHS at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. She is currently leading a service development project to further define and improve the ADHD pathway within the Adolescent Team in Southwark CAMHS, South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust.
Dr Perez has a special interest in women’s mental health and is an elected executive member of the Women and Mental Health Special Interest Group within the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Perez is also actively involved in research, having participated in the publication of academic articles in the fields of ADHD and substance misuse.
Dr Rani Samuel
Dr. Samuel is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working in Lewisham CAMHS, part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Rani trained at the Maudsley and St Georges hospitals and she is now an affiliate to Kings College London. She has over 20 years of experience in the field.
Her specialism covers expertise in the work with Children placed under local authority care and their foster parents; and adopted children and their families.
In addition to her work with the generic CAMHS patients, over the last 10 years, she has worked in the Children Looked After and Adopted Childrens Team known as the SYMBOL team, this is a specialist professional multidisciplinary team in Lewisham CAMHS, ,
She is an expert in complex assessments and risk management and has clinical expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of complex neurodevelopmental and mental health presentations, such as ADHD, ASD, comorbid mental health and behavioural problems. She works closely with local paediatric colleagues.
Dr Terry Segal
Dr Terry Segal has been a paediatric and adolescent consultant, with an interest in paediatric endocrinology at UCLH since 2007.
She is clinical lead for adolescent specialties at UCLH, Co-Lead Pan London Post COVID service and co-leads Transition for North Thames Paediatric Network.
From 2018 - 2021 she was convenor of YPHSIG (YP health special interest group from)
She is particularly interested in helping young people with complex problems such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, persistent physical symptoms, and emotional difficulties and really enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team.
She has published papers including areas of adolescent communication, HEADDSS, obesity, pubertal delay, Post COVID syndrome and ME/CFS.
Prof Emily Simonoff
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of Department Director, King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London.
Feedback comments from this course in 2025
- Well-organized, very informative, comprehensive presentations, excellent support, and easy access.
- The presenters were highly knowledgeable on a diverse range of topics, and I appreciated the strong medical/biological basis of the talks.
- Very engaging, wide-ranging talks delivered by expert speakers.
- I enjoyed the variety of topics, the expertise of the speakers, and the relevance of the subjects to current issues.
- An excellent mental health update by experts—very interactive, and I learned a lot.
- Well-spaced sessions with a good balance of questions and presentations.
- I appreciated the historical and evolutionary perspectives shared by some presenters, which provided excellent coverage and context.
- When asked what could have improved the course for me, I honestly couldn’t think of anything.
- The course was very easy to book, the streaming service was excellent, and the support team was friendly and helpful.
- A great course—very well-organized with excellent coverage.
- I liked the practical guidelines, the legal framework, and the case studies, which put everything into perspective.
- Very good topics, covered by knowledgeable lecturers, well-paced, and with adequate breaks.
- As a Community Paediatrician, I found this course very beneficial, and the CAMHS perspective was particularly interesting.
- After this course, I feel more informed and able to apply important learning points in my daily practice. It will definitely enhance my approach to handling cases discussed in the sessions.
- A well-structured, insightful course with updated knowledge that was effectively shared.
- An excellent course—comprehensive content, well-placed breaks, and highly informative material.
- This was a very useful update. I will apply some of the material and suggestions to improve my ability to recognize and understand mental health difficulties in children.
- I now have a better understanding of the challenges my patients and their families face and how to best support them in my working environment.
- I also picked up several new and effective ways to communicate ideas to families—and likely to colleagues as well.
- An excellent course. The staff was well-informed, helpful, and supportive throughout. Booking was smooth, and the communication was efficient and timely.
- I really enjoyed the level of detail, the passion of the speakers, their depth of knowledge, and the practical application of the new information.
- Expert speakers with up-to-date knowledge. Interactive, informative, and a great opportunity to share experiences.
- The expert insights and high-quality content made this training exceptionally valuable, with outstanding presenters.
- The coverage of topics was well-structured, with appropriate time allocation and timely breaks. All topics were relevant and addressed our queries effectively.
- I will apply these new approaches and knowledge to my daily practice.
- I have gained increased knowledge in assessment and management, and I will integrate many of the insights from this course into my clinical work.
Feedback comments from this course in 2024
- Excellent choice of topics. addressed most needs/burning topics, lots of learning points for me.
- Very good variety of topics, very informative and relevant to my field of work
- Good breadth of topics to connect the work of Paediatricians and CA Psychiatrists, very well organised IT and using Slido was particularly good
- Great and wide range of content, thank you, I achieved lots
- I value the range of topics covered, the level of technical support, attending virtually (allows for other commitments and reduces costs).
- Very helpful, informative lectures and well delivered; lots of use of media, audience participation and very well organised
- I feel I have learnt many new and interesting perspectives and have gained expert knowledge to implement in my daily work to aid patients in the best way possible
- This consolidates and updates knowledge allows for how to better work with colleagues in other relevant professional areas
- Very useful , informative sessions from experts, a very significant effect – will be shared with other members of our team
- Good time keeping, clear slides and knowledgeable speakers, good breaks and good level of content…and Online
- This course gave me a much better understanding of the current issues and interplay between paediatrics and mental health, feel more able to consider these in clinic.
- A very good range of rarely covered and very relevant subjects.
- Very good, I enjoyed interactive polling, thanks to the tech team
- Good streaming service, very user friendly and good explanation given pre course by Infomed
- The streaming platform used is very good, the technical support relating to the course was effective and efficient and I particularly valued coverage/content
- Very useful clinical updates and information about specialist topics that provides me with a very helpful opportunity to reflect on – thanks
- Very good course that helped me to improve my understanding of the interface of physical and mental health – very useful and not commonly covered
- This course will make me more aware of the psychological/psychiatric consequences of physical illnesses suffered by my patient group
- I’m nearing CCT and hoping to help develop our local adolescent service; I picked up very useful tips about service organisation and pathways from some of the speakers.
- Excellent coverage and achievement, a well-balanced and very interesting day.
- Good choice of relevant topics, excellent presentations and good sessions of Q&A
- Good online and concise course with a wide range of targeted topics and lots of learning points.
- The information provided was helpful and will further my clinical practice and help me understand the wider network better
- Definitely got some insight that will change my practice and my management in several types of cases.
- Good discussions on medications, research paper updates, not rushed and well compartmentalised topics and excellent speakers
- Very well organized online course with a wide range of useful topics and very knowledgeable speakers.
- Useful update with perfect organisation, knowledgeable and experienced lecturers
- A course with lots of practical topics and practical advice making a difference to practice
- The online format, the IT support, the choice of topics, the excellent presenters; all great and addressed my practical requirements for good medical practice
- This course will have significant impact on how do I assess young people, thinking about comorbidity, it will help my daily practice.
- Positive impact definitely, many learning points to implement in future practice.
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Course fee
One day: £175 inc VAT
Two days: £295 inc VAT
Three days: £425 inc VAT
What's included
- 120 days of access to the on-demand version of the course with unlimited playback
- CPD Certificate of attendance with 18 CPD points
- Opportunity to submit questions directly to the faculty