It’s not just kids who find it hard to swallow pills, adults struggle to! #kidzmed #pilltraining www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... great paper Dr Alice McClosky @ljmu-sca.bsky.social @greatnorthchildrenshospital

@nppguk.bsky.social spreading the word! #kidzmed

#kidzmedgoesglobal teaching pill swallowing in Norway! Fantastic QI project introducing pill swallowing across the country. @yincenttse @mariekeemonts.bsky.social

Hey Lauren & Karen congratulations on your fantastic work showing how we can lean to prescribe PPI& omeprazole better & more sustainably. @nppguk.bsky.social #NOOG2025 @yincent.bsky.social

SHINE Award Winners!!! (sustainable healthcare in Newcastle)Just bursting with pride for our team! Our intervention reduced liquid amoxicillin by 23% , reducing costs by 50%&. CO2 emissions by 15% #kidzmed Swallowing pills is better for the planet! #paedspharmacy

Calling out to everyone @thegreatnorthchildrenshospital we are collecting monthly for #tabithasplace who give clothes to families in the westend & support @westendfoodbank. Please bring any 8-12 year clothes to level 3, clinical office block 1 coffee area. @yincenttse @emontsleclercq

Sometimes you know you can make a difference to the people & communities who need your help most. Today is one of those opportunities. I’m proud to work with @newcastlefoodbank.org #childhealthandwellbeingnetwork @newcastleuni.bsky.social @luisawakeling.bsky.social

RSV remains a severe infection in infants and children. In this report, data on the activity of clesrovimab, a long-lasting RSV monoclonal antibody, are described as compared with palivizumab. Full interim results for the SMART phase 3 trial: nej.md/4poVkDE #MedSky #IDSky #PedSky

Don’t worry about IgA levels but take a good history including family history , any failure to thrive and any serious invasive bacterial infections esp any invasive pneumococcal disease!! @mariekeemonts.bsky.social @bpaiig.bsky.social #greatnorthpaediatricconference2025 Hot tips👏🏽 Dr Eleri Williams

gems from Dr Claire wood on steroid crises. Don’t forget new drugs eg valmorolone, make sure all children have safety netting, sick day rules, don’t have a hospital e-alert for steroids? And weaning it’s a grey are a but wean/test #BPSUstudy @newcastleuni.bsky.social #GNPC2025

It’s not a spaceship landing, it’s Dr Stephen Owens talking about the difficulties of TB treatment in low risk area but hotspot for MDRTB #endTB #greatnorthpaediatricconference2025 #GNPC2025 @mariekeemonts.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social #greatnorthchildrenhospital @bpaiig.bsky.social

It’s that time of year again. You know RSV is coming! But it could all be different with RSV vaccination. Listen to the brilliant Dr Simon Drysdale for hear the latest @ox.ac.uk @voices4vaccines.bsky.social #RCPCH #paedsround @apsmunro.bsky.social @mariekeemonts.bsky.social

We can prevent liver cancer from day 1.

Get the basics right first time. Complete observations = Accurate PEWS score. Let’s congratulate are top performing Ward 4 ( best obs compliance) and most improved ward 1A!

Get your teeth into this! All you need to know about kids oral health from our fabulous paediatric dentist Greig Taylor listen now! @mariekeemonts.bsky.social @apsmunro.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Thanks for inviting us to take part in this Vital paper showing that PEWS is able to Detect clinical Deterioration in children. So it would be good to use the same PEW scoring system. Go national PEWS! @damianroland.bsky.social #greatnorthchildrenshospital @mariekeemonts.bsky.social

Such fun to present and learn with Joany Zacharaisse & Annemarie van Rossum @sustainability session. 👏🏽 for all of you that got up early! What are you going to pledge to do to be sustainable? 🌳 Eat less meat? Start a green team or reduce your antibiotic use? #ESPID2025 @mariekeemonts.bsky.social

Want to know more about sustainability in PIDS? Come to our MTE session Wednesday 0730 Iorga hall #espid2025 @espid @mariekeemonts.bsky.social

So excited for our new series of podcasts! started by talking to the 🤩 @sbdrysdale with a reminder about RSV & maternal vaccination. Who knows will this change our winters forever? @GreatNorthCH @NENC_NHS @NCL_medscience @ImperialPaeCH @EAPCongress @CanPaedSociety @apsmunro

Thank you for inviting me to talk about #paediatricsepsis here with my sepsis team recognise sepsis (complete observations), respond (listen & do something about to parents concerns) #LTS25 #teamgeordie at the National Motorcycle Museum!

how many doses are wasted in a bottle of liquid medication & where do they go? (Down the sink, waiting for next time!) prescribe smarter, or not at all & make every dose count! use pills rather than liquids! #kidzmed #pillschool great work Dr Jo Pickles @RCPCHtweets @YincentTse

Congratulations Dr Jo Pickles & KIDZMED winners of the climate change action prize #RCPCH25 sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. #makeeverydosecount Prescribe smart (try not to prescribe a 2nd bottle) double strength if you can waste less & pills are better! @RCPCHtweets

how many doses are wasted out of a bottle of liquid medication & where do they go? (Down the sink, waiting for next time!) prescribe smarter, or not at all & make every dose count! Better still use pills rather than liquids! #kidzmed #pillschool great work Dr Jo Pickles @rcpch.bsky.social

Here, air, everywhere! did you know there’s more air pollution inside a car than outside! & do you know what to do about it? (Close windows, avoid traffic & recycle air) fab ways to start these conversations with patients & families @rcpch.bsky.social learning.rcpch.ac.uk/courses/talk... #rcpch25

What do you wish for child health in the next ten years? @rcpch.bsky.social @RCPCH_and_Us #rcpch25 planning for the future with children and young persons at the centre

The Paeds round is RCPCH regular podcast & we are about to start season 2! I’m looking forward to talking to @sbdrysdale & Prof sir Andy Pollard on vaccination & covering oral health with @DrPeterDay & Dr Greig Taylor! Come find me #RCPCH25 @RCPCHtweets learning.rcpch.ac.uk/home/podcasts/…

We are still living through the consequences of the #COVIDpandemic @rcpch.bsky.social plenary lecture from Prof Lakhanpaul children are stunted , have significant health differences and we need to plan how to recognise, respond & not re traumatise this generation

So vital to start good dental habits young. How much cheaper is this compared to admissions for tooth extraction under GA? #preventionvscure well done to the #HABIT team

Black women in the UK are still more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. @samaralinton.com explores why—and what’s being done to improve outcomes

Back in my old patch talking about why & how paediatricians should be prescribing pills, & training kids & families to swallow pills. After all we all teach inhaler techniques, why not teach pill swallowing? @rcpch.bsky.social #londonschoolpaediatrics

Listening to @wheezylikesund1 👏🏽 It’s our responsibility to make health inequality an issue and to ask ourselves what can we do practically, professionally & politically to change children’s lives #londonschoolofpaediatrics @iansinha.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social

Long-COVID incidence proportion in adults and children between 2020 and 2024 ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

Visits to Paediatric ED dropped by 8% after introducing @HT_NENC Parents know their kids best, & when they are worried they need reassurance. It’s there for you, & your family #adviceyoucantrust Very exciting to share our work with @RoyLilley @FabNHSStuff visiting @GreatNorthCH

Yes here we are changing the world one pill and one squeeze at a time! Learning new skills #pillswallowing next to #pelvicfloorexercises @knowyourfloors @greatnorthch @healthiertogethernenc

I’m at @healthworks.bsky.social at the Lemington centre listening to their incredible work promoting oral health. #healthierme testing the acidity of kids drinks at school! @healthiertogethernenc

This is not my day off, it’s my day to walk, sit on the beach and most importantly think!

1/ Delighted to report the results of the Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH) trial in @LancetChildAdol authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New year new scrubs, thanks to @louisalim.bsky.social. This brought smiles to my shift ( mine and admirer’s!)