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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.

Symptoms

The Symptoms section is the main learning section, teaching how to recognise serious acute illness in children. Real life clinical videos are used to teach a structured approach, focusing on key symptoms, examination findings, and highlighting red flags.