CAPGAN guidance

RE: COVID-19
Dear CAPGAN members,
In this unprecedent global pandemic, we know that many of us will be changing the way we work in caring for children and families. Although the greatest burden of illness is in older people and those with co-morbidities, we are keen to share guidance regarding changing our practice with children – especially those in high-risk groups. Although we focus on paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, we have also included links to general paediatric practice as this will also be relevant to many of us.

Relevant guidance and updates are available from many national and international organisations including advice re adult practice that will help guide our care of children. There are also several global databases that are keen to document how COVID-19 affects children with specific conditions; please do enter details of cases that you have managed.

Guidance directly relevant to paediatric gastroenterology

BAPEN Statement On Coronavirus And Home Parenteral Nutrition bapen.org.uk/pdfs/covid-19/bapen-statement-on-coronavirus-and-hpn

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Nutritional Care Team nurses bspghan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Birmingham-Letter-for-HPN-patients

bsg.org.uk/covid-19-advice/endoscopy-activity-and-covid-19-bsg-and-jag-guidance

bspghan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID_IBDWG_HCP

EOSNetwork: Eosinophilic Diseases

http://www.espghan.org/societal-papers/covid-19-informational-statements/

International Organisation for the study of Inflammatory bowel disease (IOIBD): ioibd.org ioibd-update-on-covid19-for-patients-with-crohns-disease-and-ulcerative-colitis

Letter from Lorenzo d’Antiga, Italyhttps://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lt.25756

NASPGHAN

nice.org.uk guidance ng172

General guidance and updates

General guidance and updates

(including delivery, neonatal care and breastfeeding) thecommonwealth.org media news commonwealth-coronavirus-response-centre

RCPCH

UpToDate – from Walters Kluwer

UNICEF

SURVEYS please report cases of COVID-19

SECURE-IBD Coronavirus and IBD Reporting Database: covidibd.org

ESPGHANPorto IBD Group How does COVID-19 (Coronavirus) 2020 outbreak influence pediatric IBD?

Patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Diseases EoE/EGID and COVID-19

Information from charities and for parents and carers

BSPGHAN IBD Working Group COVID-19 in children with IBD bspghan.org.uk wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID_IBDWG_Parents_Carers

Canada Paediatric Society (including those with special needs) and adolescents

Coeliac UK: Coeliac disease and coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQs
Crohn’s and colitis UK

Decision trees for assessing risk and appropriate social distancing and shielding for children crohnsandcolitis.org.uk/decision-tree-children

UpToDate – from Walters Kluwer

This is not an exhaustive search, but we hope that these links will be helpful, we will aim to keep them up-to-date as new evidence and guidance emerges and welcome your feedback. Please do let us know of any additional sources of information – especially those relevant to colleagues facing COVID-19 “on the front line” throughout the Commonwealth: please e mail capganonline@gmail.com

CAPGAN Visiting Fellowship Programme

CAPGAN would like to invite applications for this new programme which is open to all CAPGAN members. The overall aim is to build capacity in research and clinical practice by supporting secondments to institutions within the CAPGAN network. The Fellowships will be competitive with priority given to applications from early career clinicians and researchers that are likely to result in significant improvements in clinical care or the development of research in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition in low and middle-income Commonwealth countries.

We envisage secondments of between 6 weeks to 3 months to institutions within the CAPGAN network. Details of some institutions willing to host Fellows are shown in appendix 1 but we encourage you to identify a supervisor and institution that best meets your training and development needs. Preference will be given to applicants who have identified an appropriate institution and include a supporting letter from the proposed supervisor. We can also help you in identifying appropriate institutions.

CAPGAN has allocated some funds to launch the programme and we will be looking for matching funding from appropriate sources to increase the number of Fellowships that we can support. To date, additional funds are available to support a Visiting Fellowship at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK. For further details, please contact: Stephen.allen@lstmed.ac.uk

Applications will be judged primarily on how the activities undertaken during the Fellowship will provide professional and personal development for the candidate and improve clinical care or research in their home institution or within the wider CAPGAN network. Activities could include gaining clinical or research experience and skills, developing a joint research proposal for submission for funding and developing education resources.

Any costs that are required to complete Fellowships are eligible. However, we encourage applicants to seek other financial support and specify the costs being requested from this programme; this will allow us to support more Fellows from the available funds.

Applications should be submitted using the form in appendix 2 to capganonline@gmail.com

Applications will be assessed by the CAPGAN Visiting Fellowship Task Group.

Please contact Stephen.allen@lstmed.ac.uk and/or the host of your chosen institution if you would like to discuss any aspect of your proposal.

CAPGAN ACTIVITIES

• Pediatric hepatology CME held on 11 August 2019 in association with the founding meeting of 1st LTSI (Liver Transplantation society India) held on 10 & 11th Aug 2019 in Gurgaon (India)
• 11-march-2019 : Attended Reception of Commonwealth Day at Marlborough House.
• 10/9/2018 : Celebrating 30 Years Of Pediatric Gastroenterology in Bristol and the Commonwealth, at Bristol.
• Pediatric Hepatology CME held on 2nd September 2018 in Delhi in association with Indian Academy of Pediatrics and Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutritiion (ISPGHAN).
• CAPGAN Council meeting 2018 at 1pm The Geneva Conference centre, Geneva, Switzerland.
• CAPGAN Council Meeting, Lusaka, Zambia 2017 : 1PM
• CAPGAN Council meeting, Teleconference : 30 June 2016
• The 2ndCommonwealth Family (of Accredited Organizations) Meeting : 28 January 2016, Marlborough House, London.