This presentation will consider problems encountered when parents and staff disagree on how much control parents should have in medical management, and when they disagree on what is best for a sick child.
Some of the policy work the Department of Health and Human Services Child Health and Wellbeing Unit has been undertaking since its creation in November 2017.
Recent cases of conflict around medical treatment for seriously ill infants and young children have raised a number of questions about the nature, consequences and ethics of disagreement in neonatal intensive care.
How often do serious disagreements about treatment occur? Are they becoming more common? Why do disagreements occur? If there is disagreement between parents and health professionals about treatment for a child, what should the health care team do?
The language we use with patients and families has a profound impact on them, and shapes their relationship with health professionals. In Victoria there is a large cohort of children with complex medical needs. Many are seen at RCH by a wide variety of professionals, over many years. In the care of these children, communicating effectively with them and their families can be as important as any medical therapy or procedure. Language can make the difference between a powerless family and an empowered one. It also enables health professionals to empathise better with their patients, improving patient outcomes and practitioner wellbeing.
Research throughout the small African county of The Gambia has provided many important lessons for the future of Global health. This seminar will discuss The contributions made by scientists working in the Gambia to reductions in child mortality, including demonstration of the impact of insecticide treated bednets, Haemophilus influenzae and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in reducing child morbidity and mortality.
Dr Doug Bryan is a paediatrician who has worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital since 1970. During those 48 years the prognosis and life prospects for children with chronic and complex medical conditions have improved dramatically. This has occurred partly from the discovery of new interventions but also in large part to the development of systems of care that specifically focus on the care and needs of these children and their families.
Although Australia receives a disproportionately small share of the world’s refugees, the ‘problem’ of unauthorized boat arrivals has been a highly controversial and political one in recent decades. In this Grand Round for Refugee week, Professor Michelle Foster, from the Melbourne Law School, will discuss the key problems with Australia’s current system of refugee protection, focusing in particular on mandatory indefinite detention.
The most important vectors of the 21st century epidemics are not mosquitoes, ticks or lice. They are the giant supranational tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food and beverage corporations
This presentation will highlight the significant nursing leadership that occurs through research and innovation on our campus and how this leadership reflects the World Health Organisation and the International Council of Nurses’ Nursing Now campaign.
On the first of February 2017 the office of the Health Complaints Commissioner came into operation under new legislation, the Health Complaints Act 2016. This Act repealed the Health Services (Conciliation and Review) Act 1987 and thus replaced the previous office of the Health Services Commissioner with the Health Complaints Commissioner.
