CHER

Child Health Education & Revalidation

2026 EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED

Wednesday 11^th March 2026

Online

Aims and Objectives: The first of the CHER refresher days in 2026 is being offered at low cost to facilitate all comers. There is no charge for medical and nursing students.

The five talks are directed at bread-and-butter paediatric practice. The program includes examination of approach and referral systems for difficult issues like pain management, acute and recurrent cervical lymphadenopathy and will also provide a major update on common cardiac problems in the young and the pathways for referral for suspicion or symptomatology in both primary care and more acute settings.

There will be session to describe and raise awareness of the variety of communication difficulties in the autistic child, and ways of approach to these in routine practice.

This session will also touch on specialist systems for therapeutic input and the best way to make these accessible to individual children. The course will close with Child Safeguarding at appropriate level for attendees. This session will look at the outcome of knife crime on the young, and at systems being developed to mitigate risk and consequence.

Teaching Methods: A series of talks delivered online with opportunities for questions and answers, directly or via chat box.

Certificates of attendance following completion of a feedback form.

Title of talks include:

Managing pain in the young

Understanding Communication needs in autism. Delivering an accessible service, Cervical lymphadenopathy: approach, management, redlines, Guidelines update: paediatric patient pathways for common suspected cardiology issues presenting at the frontline, Child Safeguarding: Knife Crime, working with young people to change attitudes and reduce risk.

To book click on the link: https://www.cher-newcastle.co.uk/cher-days/

March Programme 

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Yogi Memorial Prize

Wednesday 29^th April 2026

The Yogi Memorial Prize is open to all who work in child health in our region (apart from Consultants), e.g. nurses, NMAHPs, pharmacists, resident doctors, practitioners, students, ancillary staff, etc.

Important: Please note, you may submit an abstract for the YOGI prize, even if submitted for publication, competition or presentation elsewhere.

Your abstract will be excluded only if previously presented or already published within a National or International forum.

Abstracts are invited that report the findings of any audit, quality improvement or research project of relevance to child health.

The overarching ethos is to stimulate discussion of important topics and to support less experienced entrants in presenting their work.

 The Yogi Memorial Prize is unique in this and if submitted sufficiently in advance of the deadline then applicants will be supported by the organising committee in constructively developing their abstracts in advance of final submission.

A team of judges will then independently and anonymously score abstracts with the highest scoring finalists selected for oral presentation at The Yogi Memorial Prize event in April 2026.

Cash prize and shield for the winner

Submit an abstract by:

9 am, Monday 23rd March

Abstract Rules  & Prize Poster 

10^th June all day Diabetes day

9^th December – Frontline paediatrics for GPs, Paediatricians, Trainees and other professionals on the frontline (online)

Check out our website for more information: https://www.cher-newcastle.co.uk/cher-days/