The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an extraordinary united and unifying call and a unique opportunity for a better Australia. It will be talked about at length in the next few years as we move towards a referendum for Constitutional reform. The result will be crucial for child health in this country, so child health professionals need to be informed.
This Grand Round will feature two presentations on the ethical complexities of decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions. While shared decision-making is the accepted ethical approach, the devil is in the detail.
Launched in June of 2021, the Centre for Health Analytics has now been operational for a year. With a vision to unleash the power of data to improve child and adolescent health, the Centre will share some early successes and show how we’re aligned to similar initiatives in the NHS. This presentation will spark new ideas of how to use data, and provide insights into how best to engage with the Centre for Health Analytics to deliver high value data rich work.
Speaker
Professor Jim Buttery is a paediatric infectious diseases physician and vaccinologist. He is the inaugural Professor of Child Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne. He is Head of Health Informatics, Epidemiology and Signal detection at SAEFVIC (MCRI) and Chief Clinical Research Information Officer & Infectious Diseases Physician at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH). Prof Buttery also serves as a member of the TGA Advisory Committee on Vaccines.
Trials typically report outcomes that lack relevance to patients and caregivers trying to make treatment decisions. Also, outcomes are often reported inconsistently which impairs evidence synthesis. Core outcome sets can address these important shortcomings with current trial outcomes by developing a set of outcomes to be routinely reported in all trials in a particular field.
Among individuals with cerebral palsy (CP), rehabilitation needs and treatment have been established, but are mostly focused on the pediatric population. Evidence demonstrates that the number of adults who live with CP and other childhood-onset disabilities is increasing, and that they experience significant physical and mental health inequalities as they grow up.
We are excited to launch the Department of Paediatrics Academy, a community of practice on a shared platform across University of Melbourne, RCH and MCRI, as well as collaborating organisations.
In the digital world we live in now, communities of practice can be highly effective where the working context can be complex and ambiguous. This presentation will highlight the functions of a community of practice, learn firsthand from Boston Children’s Hospital’s Academy, as well as local experience from RCH Centre of Health Analytics.
Traditionally being considered a method for training healthcare professionals in basic and advanced life support, Simulation Based Education in healthcare has grown over the past 30 years and is now recognised to be effective in many other aspects of healthcare training. Focusing on enhancing patient safety, simulation initially concentrated on clinical procedural skills training and immersive deteriorating patient simulations, as well as simulations to enhance communication between staff and with patients and their families.
The Melbourne Children’s Campus (the Campus) has the culture and expertise to provide our infants, children and young people, and their families with world class mental health care (The RCH), built on sound evidence (MCRI), and workforce training and education (University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics). The integration of mental health research, education and care across the Campus underpins the Campus Mental Health Strategy (Strategy), a five-year Strategy that has been funded for the first 2 years by The RCH Foundation. A team of 14 people will lead and implement the Strategy, supported by many leaders and staff from across the Campus.
The Australian healthcare system is a significant contributor to climate change through its own carbon footprint, which is estimated to be 7% of Australia’s total carbon emissions. National and international peak health organisations are urging healthcare sectors to decrease their emissions as quickly as possible, in order to uphold our core mission to sustain health and our responsibility to first do no harm.
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.
