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Community capability and capacity building – the secret to great care everywhere

What does great care, everywhere really look like when one in five children begin school with an established or emerging health or development need? One of the best strategies for optimising children’s health is building the capability and capacity of communities to meet their needs locally.

This Grand Round explores the partnership between the Wimmera Southern Mallee By Five project and the Centre for Community Child Health. It examines what it looks like when primary health, education and social care unite to build relational practice, capability and capacity for the sake of a community’s children.

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COVID-19: An Update: What have we learnt over the last 12 months?

Never in the field of health was so much learned by so many in so few months. This Grand Round will recap the lessons from last year, take stock of where we are in February 2022, describe the complex situation with vaccines, and look to what the year might hold for the pandemic and children in Australia and countries around the world. 

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Trust: why it is essential to great healthcare and how to build it

Understanding and building trust is essential to the RCH Compact and to delivering Great Care, Everywhere.

Research shows trust underpins a good culture, positive relationships between team members and their leaders and with their organisation; and brings out the best in all of us for our patients and their families.

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Clinical Incident Investigations – Reporting, Investigating, and Improving

We come to work each day to do the very best for our patients, however in some instances, patients are harmed by the care that was intended to help them.  Such clinical incidents affect not only the patients and families, but also the well-intentioned staff.  Problems are confounded if information is not provided and there are gaps in learning and improvement. In the busy clinical environment, incidents may be discussed but not thoroughly investigated to understand what happened and why. 

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Double agents: adventures as a clinician and scientist

Through a significant contribution from the RCH Foundation, the Clinician Scientist Fellowship program supports doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to undertake research up to 2 days a week for up to 5 years. The Fellowship enables talented, clinically qualified professionals who have gained a higher research degree to pursue academic research alongside clinical practice.

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Vernon Collins Oration – The ethical life of the hospital

The Vernon Collins Oration was established in 1981, in memory of Professor Vernon Collins, the first Medical Director of The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.  Vernon Collins held this position from 1949 to 1960 and then became the first Professor of Child Health in the University of Melbourne, before retiring in 1974. The 2021 Vernon Collins Oration will be delivered by Professor Lynn Gillam AM, an experienced clinical ethicist and Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital.  

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Delta in Kids- what we do and don’t know

We have a National Roadmap, which includes COVID-19 vaccine coverage targets for the easing of restrictions.  But how do children and adolescents fit into this, with regard the direct and indirect effects of Delta on their health and well-being?

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