What is the BPMHG

What is the British Paediatric Mental Health Group (BPMHG)?

The BPMHG is a group of professionals interested in developing and promoting the role of paediatricians in mental health

Our aims can be summarised as follows:

To promote the importance of mental health issues in paediatric practice.

To promote the importance of paediatricians in the delivery of child mental health services.

To promote the development training opportunities for paediatricans in mental health.

To foster closer, more productive links with related professional groups.

We have several practical roles:

Running an annual residential conference, which provides a small, intimate & much valued safe place to share controversial and difficult issues through presentations and workshops

We run an academic sub section at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health annual scientific meeting

We are represented on a wide range of committees within paediatrics and associated specialties.

We contribute to national consultations e.g. NICE guidance

Who is in the BPMHG?

We have members from all over the UK. Many of our members are paediatricians, but we also have substantial representation from psychiatry and psychology

There is also an executive committee, who oversee the running of the BPMHG. Click here for the details of who is on the committee.

We are affiliated to, but independent from, the following organisations:

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

The British Association of Community Child Health

We we hope to announce affiliation to the following organisations shortly:

The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

The British Association of General Paediatricians

Why should I join?

Because you are an interested professional who supports our aims and can afford £15 a year.

What is the BPMHG?

	To promote the importance of mental health issues in paediatric practice.
	To promote the importance of paediatricians in the delivery of child mental health services.
	To promote the development training opportunities for paediatricans in mental health.
	To foster closer, more productive links with related professional groups.

	Running an annual residential conference, which provides a small, intimate & much valued safe place to share controversial and difficult issues through presentations and workshops
	We run an academic sub section at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health annual scientific meeting
	We are represented on a wide range of committees within paediatrics and associated specialties.
	We contribute to national consultations e.g. NICE guidance

	We have members from all over the UK. Many of our members are paediatricians, but we also have substantial representation from psychiatry and psychology
	There is also an executive committee, who oversee the running of the BPMHG. Click here for the details of who is on the committee.

	The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
	The British Association of Community Child Health

	The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
	The British Association of General Paediatricians