Leonardo Bid for European Funding

Through CIRC, the RCGP is leading a bid for European funding from the Leonardo Programme. This partnership will comprise the RCGP in the UK as coordinator, Associazone Italiana Medicinia Di Famigla in Italy, Zdrowie I Zarządzanie in Poland, IDIAP Jordi Gol in Spain, the University of Porto Medical School, Portugal and the University of Liège, Belgium. 

If successful, these partners will review the impact of shared decision making on the management of diabetes and associated comorbid conditions, which differ across age groups. 

The partnership will identify and compare divergence across many European systems, as represented by the spread of nations within the partnership, culminating in a report to inform a training programme for health care professionals to share best European practice.  Each partner is engaged in medical education, training and practice and is best placed in their own nation to deliver the project.  There has been little work carried out to date in this area.

Fever project: Parents' experiences of urgent care services

During the consultation on the document, Direction of Travel for Urgent Care (2006), concerns were expressed that the needs of children for urgent care services were not being adequately addressed, despite the fact that they are frequent users of urgent care services. In 2008, the Department of Health commissioned the RCPCH, in collaboration with RCGP, CEM, NHS Direct, JRALC and Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, to carry out a pilot study to explore the child's journey through the urgent care pathway using feverish illness as an indicator condition. The project is now complete. Download the full report. 

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