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Helping healthcare professionals identify children with serious illness

Welcome to the new Spotting the Sick Child website, relaunched on 31 July 2026. If you have not visited the website before or since it has been relaunched, you will need to register a new account. It only takes 1 minute to register.

Basic Child Assessment

The Basic Child Assessment course provides essential skills for assessing the acutely unwell child through a structured, systematic approach using the Three-Minute Toolkit, effective communication strategies, and child-friendly assessment techniques to recognise and respond to serious illness.