Useful resources
Websites
- Spotting the Sick Child - a new interactive tool commissioned by the Department of Health to support health professionals in the assessment of the acutely sick child.
- College of Emergency Medicine - provides training courses which may be of interest
- Resuscitation Council (UK) - run the Paediatric Immediate Life Support and European Paediatric Life Support courses
- Advanced Life Support Group - run the Advanced Paediatric Life Support course
- Faculty of Emergency Nursing - visit the "career" section of the website for their competency framework
- National Patient Safety Agency
Documents
- Why children die - a pilot study (2006) from the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health. Available on the Centre of Maternal and Child Enquiries website
- The role of the consultant paediatrician with subspecialty training in paediatric emergency medicine (2008) available on the RCPCH website

