Webinar Six

Antibiotics for children

Webinar 6 will explore how to ensure children are safe from potentially life threatening infections - how to identify the unwell child, whether they require antibiotics and how to provide clear safety netting materials and information for home care.

Webinar & Speaker

Complete Evaluation

In Webinar 6 an expert panel discusses the management of suspected infections in children. Dr Sanjay Patel a paediatric infectious diseases consultant introduced the discussion, Dr Christie Cabral, a social anthropologist with research interests in child and family health, presents an animation describing the mismatch between parents and clinicians’ expectations, and Alastair Hay, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol presents the development of the STARWAVe tool to help assess risk of hospital admission.

The webinar and Q&A session was led by Professor Cliodna McNulty, Head of PHE Primary Care Unit and lead for the TARGET antibiotics project.

Reference materials

Documents

Webinar 6 - Learning Outcomes

Read this short summary of how STARWAVe can be used in your clinical setting

Read this paper to learn how the STARWAVe clinical score was developed. Hay et al. Lancet 2016.

Read this paper to understand the importance of good communication with parents. Cabral et al. Annals of Family Medicine 2016

Read how clinicians are confident to diagnose mild or severe illness, but find it more difficult to distinguish children with intermediate risk of illness severity, from those with mild or severe illness. Horwood et al. DOI 2016.

Read this paper to understand how qualitative research was used to inform the development of interventions to increase parents and clinicians' confidence to distinguish mild and severe illness. Cabral et al. Social Science and Medicine 2015.

Use the single page NICE Traffic light system poster to identify serious illness in children.

Read this paper showing how valuable parents and clinicians found the "When should I worry?" bookley. Francis et al. BMC Family Practice 2013.

Read this paper which shows the effectiveness of the "When should I worry" booklet. Francis et al. BMJ 2009

"When should I worry" booklet

"Caring for children with cough" leaflet

Read this paper about acute respiratory tract infection (RTI) being the most common reason why parents consult primary care in the UK and how little is known about parents’ perceptions of what may help them to make an appropriate decision to consult when their child is ill and how to improve self-care. Ingram et al. BMC Family Practice 2013

Videos

Watch this animation “What parents want from a GP consultation - for their child’s cough or respiratory tract infection” produced by University of Bristol Centre for Academic Primary Care

External links

Share this leaflet on infections and how long they last with "When should I worry booklet".

Download this leaflet for parents on "caring for children with cough". It gives information for parents about illness duration, sleep disturbance, fever, and when to see a doctor.

See the NICE feverish children pathway.

Download the NICE Clinical Guidance [CG47] about Feverish illness in children: assessment and initial management in children younger than 5 years.

Look at the information provided on this website " Healthier together" developed by Dr Sanjay Patel

Go to the e-Bug website to find resources to improve hand hygiene and respiratory hygiene in schools. There are resources for teachers and for students.