Report to Council Meeting on 11th June 2010 on the work of the UEMS Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (UEMS CAP).

The parent body UEMS:

Objectives:

  • The promotion and harmonisation of the highest level of training of the medical specialists, medical practice and health care within the European Union;
  • The promotion of free movement of specialist doctors within the EU;
  • The representation of the medical specialist profession;
  • The defence of the professional interests of European Medical Specialists

Ref. UEMS Strategy (UEMS 2008/05)

Mission:

  • To assure continuous participation of medical specialists;
  • To development of the highest possible quality of medical care services in Europe for the benefit of all European citizens;
  • To continuously to defend the whole spectrum of professional interests of European medical specialists,with the special emphasis on assurance of the highest level of professional autonomy/self‐regulation

Ref. UEMS Strategy (UEMS 2008/05)

Vision:

An autonomous medical organisation with a vision tostay the central and leading European professionalassociation for setting standards and consultation inthe fields of:

  • Postgraduate medical specialist training
  • CME/CPD
  • Quality Assurance in specialist medical practice

Ref. UEMS Strategy (UEMS 2008/05)

With additionally, political involvement in EU Affairs.

Representatives on UEMS CAP for the UK are Brian Jacobs (Member) and Sue Bailey Vice President of the Section. In addition to the annual international meeting of UEMS CAP we also attend the regular meetings of the UEMS at the BMA.

The UEMS CAP section represents the different monospecialist associations in Europe. Within the sections, the boards are the working groups responsible for the specialist training questions.

The Section and Board meet on an annual basis.

The work of UEMS CAP 2009/2010 has covered:-

  1. An information source on the situation of child and adolescent psychiatry in each country with regard to trainees, qualified child and adolescent psychiatrists, service development and any other relevant issues.
  2. How we can work more collaboratively and avoid duplication with the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP).

This was delivered through a joint meeting held with ESCAP and we now will have

  • Shared working groups
  • Shared training seminars during the International ESCAP meeting in Helsinki 2011.

Working together we have now become jointly involved with the building up of ICD-11 with respect to child and adolescent psychiatry with representation from the UEMS (Sue Bailey) and ESCAP through their President, Professor Tuula Tamminen.

  1. UEMS CAP have joint working and attendance at other UEMS partners in particular:-

Section of Paediatrics

Section of Psychiatry

And in 2009 we took part in the EFTP Trainees Federation meeting in Cambridge where there was a working group held on CAP.

Current Working Groups

  1. Service Delivery and Quality Assurance.
  2. Development of new log book to reflect core competency based training.

Special Activities

  1. Development of relationship between CAP and child neurology.
  2. Memorandum of UEMS/ CAP and the European Academy of Paediatrics. on Immigrant Youth.
  3. Lobbying of policy makers as a result of which Spain has now just recognised child and adolescent psychiatry as a specialty in its own right.

UEMS CAP meets again in September when the focus will be on delivery of quality services and Peter Thompson from the College has been invited to attend to talk about Quality Assurance Networks.

Financial overview 2009
INCOME
Transfere (save) / 27,896.42
Subscriptions (estimate) / 8,000.00
TOTAL INCOME / 35,896.42
EXPENSES, (estimate)
Web page, secretarial / 1,600.00
Travel expenses - Executive Board / 5,000.00
Bank services / 70.00
Poster award / 500.00
Working groups / 1,500.00
TOTAL EXPENSES / 8,670.00
Balance / 27,226.42
Proposed budget 2010
INCOME
Transfere (save) / 27,226.42
Subscriptions (estimate) / 8,000.00
TOTAL INCOME / 35,226.42
EXPENSES, estimate
Web page / 1,600.00
Travel expenses - Executive Board / 5,000.00
Bank services / 70.00
Working groups / 2,000.00
TOTAL EXPENSES 8.670,00 / 8,670.00
Balance / 26,556.42

Professor Sue Bailey,

Registrar

1st June 2010