Medical assessments – what, why and best practice
4th March 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Venue: Zoom (online) – day seminar
Audience
Healthcare professionals, school nurses, and healthcare assistants.
Course outline
School Nurses provide advice and education on the health and wellbeing of a young person. Health care promotion and identification of ill health is part of the role. This course discusses the benefits of carrying out medical assessments of pupils in the school setting. The healthy child program 5-19 discusses the guidance outlined for those in education settings to support young people with their health and wellbeing, thus enabling them to take ownership of their own medical issues, stay healthy and develop a healthy lifestyle. This course reflects on how we can support this.
Training topics will include:
- Vision and hearing testing
- The practical aspects of medicals in the school setting
- Record keeping
- Health promotion.
Learning outcomes:
- To establish how this service can be provided by your school
- To develop a knowledge of the importance of regular assessments
- To learn skills that allow you to assess the health and wellbeing of a young person.
Cost
- Member Rate: £175
- Non-member Rate: £350*
*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Hieda CPD and events, please click here.
Speaker:
Louise Howel, Head of Hieda
Louise Howel is a paediatric nurse with experience in children’s A & E, plastics and respiratory care. Health visitor for ten years. Nine years experience in independent school nursing working in a mix of boarding and day school settings. Six years experience as Health centre manager most recently at Wycliffe College.
Dr Alex Maxwell
Dr Alex Maxwell is a GP, School doctor, Sports doctor and Lifestyle Medic. He is the School doctor for Harrow School and Whitgift School and finds immense satisfaction in the varied challenges in these roles. His particular interests are sleep, nutrition, physical activity, mental wellbeing and the psychology of health behaviour change.
His aim as a school doctor is to provide the framework for the child to leave school with the tools to manage their mental and physical health for the rest of their lives.
