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The PMHA’s first webinar took place on Monday 7th June 2021.
Dr. Virginia Davies, Consultant Paediatric Liaison Psychiatrist, discussed Medically Unexplained Symptoms in children and young people. The webinars will be held every two weeks from now on. More information will be published here before each session.
The webinars will run fortnightly on Monday evenings and will cover a range of topics relevant to the RCPCH training curriculum. Paediatric doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, as well as professionals from other medical specialties, are all welcome to attend.
We are excited to be collaborating with several different groups on this project. Half of our sessions will be aimed at general Paediatricians and we will be working with the very popular Thinking Together group to deliver some of these. The other half of our sessions will be run in conjunction with other subspecialty groups within the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), covering particular mental health issues affecting their patient populations.
First Webinar – Monday 7th June, 7:30pm Our first webinar, run in collaboration with the Thinking Together group, will take place at 7:30pm on Monday 7th June. The focus will be Medically Unexplained Symptoms, and it will be delivered by the wonderful Dr. Virginia Davies, Consultant Paediatric Liaison Psychiatrist at The Whittington Hospital. It’s sure to be an engaging and interesting session and we look forward to welcoming lots of you there.
To register your interest in attending these webinars, please sign up to our mailing list at the following link using your professional email address (nhs.net or nhs.uk):
We will send regular emails with details of upcoming sessions and booking links. We will also make this information about the sessions available here on the PMHA website.
We’re looking forward to getting started with this new project and can’t wait for you all to join us.
Liaison psychiatrists work at the interface between physical and psychological health.
Providing specialist mental health assessment and treatment for patients attending general hospitals, they deal with a range of problems including self-harm, adjustment to illness and physical and psychological co-morbidities.
The clinical content of liaison psychiatry practice is complex, and every day brings a new challenge.
Liaison Psychiatrists educate general hospital colleagues to improve their knowledge, skills and confidence in the basics of management of common mental health problems that they encounter in their practice.
Liaison psychiatrists work with medical and surgical colleagues as their patients can have high levels of mental health problems.
Also, patients with chronic disease may have difficulty managing their condition which liaison psychiatric input can help.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health is moving increasingly under the spotlight on political and public agendas. We are seeing almost daily media articles focusing on the rising rates of acute presentations of children and adolescents in crisis to Emergency Departments (ED), as well as the expanding waiting lists for community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Although there have been developments in policy to address the needs of young people with mental health difficulties such as Future in Mind1, the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health2 and the Long Term Plan3; there is still a long way to go to achieve parity with adult mental health services, let alone physical health provisions.
The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN) Accreditation Committee were keen to broaden the scope of the current PLAN Quality Standards to encompass patients of all ages.
The standards in this document have been developed from current legislation, guidance and experts, and shared with members of the RCPsych Paediatric Liaison Network6 for their input and approval.
Quality Standards for Children and Young People for Liaison Psychiatry Services Royal College of Pschiatrists April 2019