APEM is committed to helping promote national consistency, ongoing appraisal frameworks, credentialing and revalidation support for qualified ACPs. National Survey of Qualified ACP Governance in Paediatric Emergency & Urgent Care – Fill in form Our ACP lead Kate Blake has developed a short national scoping survey (<5mins) to try to establish what is currently happening across paediatric emergency and urgent care services. This seeks to capture the experience of qualified ACPs

The headline article on BBC news early last week highlights the shocking reality of 'Children as young as six going to A&E in mental health crisis'. The APEM Team fully endorses Dr Sam Jones' call for not only greater investment in children's mental health services but also improved training for staff from key agencies across health, social care and education in helping children who are struggling with their mental health. APeM members may be interested in participating in th

Summer arrived with a full agenda for children and young people’s urgent and emergency care. Autumn is round the corner and looks equally packed kicking off with the PERUKI/APEM conference in September. This update brings together the main areas of progress across the child advocacy and policy spaces since spring and highlights where members can get involved. We include a small snap shot of the upcoming academic and educational opportunities and the ongoing stakeholder work s

On Monday 15th June, the Government announced a ban on social media platforms for children under 16. This new policy also includes restrictions on live streaming and communication with strangers, extending to gaming platforms. These changes are expected to take effect in Spring 2027. The move responds to increasing evidence of the negative effects social media has on the physical and mental health of children and young people. Growing Concerns from Clinicians Clinicians have

APEM are pleased to see this position statement, developed by RCEM with input from APEM members, which calls on the government to provide clear legislation around the use of E-scooters. Key recommendations are as follows: Review of legislation to explore further measures to protect adults, children and young people from harm as a result of e-scooter use. Establish data collection and support research into e-scooter injuries including collaboration between health, education an

The events team have been hard at work and the most anticipated conference of the autumn season is open for booking now. Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to apemabstracts@gmail.com and to buy your tickets to the conference dinner after you sign up to the main event. Please also check our detailed travel/accommodation and bursaries guide All details below…

Two opportunities have been highlighted to APEM for contributions to important research. Dr Becca Ellison is working as Greener NHS fellow alongside RCPCH to understand how heat is affecting paediatric practice. The James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership about Childhood Fractures is working with PERUKI and wants to hear the opinions of any professionals, patients, parents/carers, or anyone who has ever broken a bone as a child. See below for how to contribute Sign U

Hello and welcome to Spring. With warmer days ahead and hopefully the back of the winter viruses, I thought we should update you about the busy winter season we've been contributing to as APEM. There are several new committee members to introduce, after a very busy application round, thanks again to everyone who expressed interest. The recent meningitis and measles outbreaks thankfully appear to have been contained we highlight some thoughtful reading around both. In addition

There is still time to apply for our committe vacancies: Interim website rep National guidelines coordinator RCEM Trainee rep RCPCH Trainee rep Come join us!

Happy New Year to you all and we hope you manged to get some rest and recuperation over the holiday period! December saw us all in the depths of the "flunami" (thank you Ian Lewins) and RSV surge - how are your teams holding up? Its tough out there with increased numbers of attendances and staff sickness, please do reach out if you think there is more APEM can be doing to support or advocate for you and your teams. (BTW - isn't it great that those of us in England can now be

Friday 7 November 2025 | Virtual event | RCEM accredited for 5-CPD points Book you tickets now! View the programme below:

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