by Catriona Taylor | Jun 10, 2025 | Events, Health Care Professionals, News
We’re delighted to have our new range of CGF branded clothing and merchandise available to purchase through our online shop.
Clothing range
Our new clothing range has t-shirts for all the family!
Clothing: Women’s t-shirt
Branded merchandise
We’ve also launched a CGF branded stainless steel water bottle which will keep your drink of choice hot or cold for hours, and features a black design printed with the Child Growth Foundation’s yellow and blue logo.
CGF Merchandise: Stainless steel water bottle
by Catriona Taylor | Apr 10, 2025 | Events, Health Care Professionals, News
In March the CGF attended the RCPCH (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) three day conference in Glasgow.
Sally from the CGF team was really grateful to share a space with Harlow Solutions who produce (amongst many things) the ‘red book’, also known as the Personal Child Health Record (PCHR).
RCPCH are the membership body for paediatricians in the UK and around the world. The theme for this year’s conference was ‘Future child health: innovate, integrate and inspire’. This 2025 event also featured a dedicated area and presentation theatre on childhood rare diseases.
The event was a brilliant opportunity to share our materials and talk to paediatricians from across the UK. It was also fantastic to connect with the other patient support groups in attendance, many of whom we have never met or worked with before. We particularly valued sharing ideas of how we support our rare community and identifying ways we can collaborate to deliver greater impact, reaching as many families as possible and provide the most appropriate, meaningful support.
Thank you Harlow for inviting us to join you, and to the RCPCH for having us!
by Catriona Taylor | Mar 26, 2025 | Events, Health Care Professionals, News
We recently attended Society for Endocrinology’s (SfE) British Endocrine Society (BES) conference in Harrogate.
The three day event is packed with science, research, clinical investigation and clinical practice for healthcare professionals. Our charity was a number of SfE Patient Support Groups (PSGs) attending the event with an information stand, as we represented the child growth community with our booklets and range of resources. It was brilliant to chat with a number of healthcare professionals in attendance, with exhibitor organisations and with the PSGs there over the course of the event.
Key parts of the CGF’s work include raising awareness and supporting healthcare professionals, and so events like this are a great opportunity in working towards these important aims of our work!
The SfE PSGs meet virtually on a regular basis throughout the year and while so many of us were together in Harrogate we had an in person meeting with members of the SfE team and a number of representatives from the PSGs, with the opportunity to talk about collaborative working amongst our various organisations to support our work and the communities we are here for.
by Catriona Taylor | May 2, 2023 | Health Care Professionals, Information, News
A paper has been published in the British Journal of General Practice highlighting the varied inequalities in the assessment of childhood stature, including systematic gender and racial biases.
As the paper shares; early detection of short stature is key to optimising health outcomes, however, there are significant social disparities in the assessment of childhood short stature.
We have shared some of the key issues raised below. You can read the full paper here.
“There are significant social disparities in the assessment of childhood short stature. This presents additional challenges and it is crucial that clinicians recognise issues relating to gender, race, and poverty to improve timely diagnosis and reduce health inequalities.”
“Girls are less frequently referred from primary care for assessment of short stature, yet often have more severe growth failure at presentation and have higher rates of underlying pathology compared with boys.”
“Bias inherent in health professionals also contributes to disparities in the investigation and treatment of short stature. White children, especially those from higher socioeconomic groups, are not only more frequently referred for concerns about growth but are also more likely to be offered growth hormone (GH) stimulation testing than children of other ethnicities.”
“Although the assessment and treatment of short stature should be driven by clinical concern, biased clinical decision making is disadvantaging girls and some ethnic minority groups, especially Black children. Paradoxically, these groups have the greatest need.”
“These systematic racial and gender biases in clinicians and families are often unconscious, but must be acknowledged and tackled before healthcare inequalities can be addressed.”
“Raising awareness of the health disparities in the assessment of childhood short stature in caregivers, primary, secondary, and specialist clinicians is key to addressing these issues.”
The team at Child Growth Foundation are proactively working on how we can support this work needed to address these inequalities and the challenges these inequalities bring to many children and families.
Two of the paper’s co-authors are CGF’s Medical Advisors, Professor Helen L Storr and Professor Justin Davies, with the paper featuring quotes kindly shared from the CGF community of families. Thanks to them and to all involved in this paper for raising these important issues.
The authors of this paper have also published ‘Assessment of childhood short stature: a GP guide’ which is also available on the British Journal of General Practice.
by Catriona Taylor | Jan 9, 2023 | Health Care Professionals, News
Here at the Child Growth Foundation we work with various specialists, health care practitioners and families advocating for early detection, specialist management, treatment and support for all growth conditions.
We’re keen to understand what training healthcare professionals receive for monitoring and measuring infants’, children’s and young people’s growth and to explore potential need and interest.
We have launched a survey on growth measurement training completed in different settings to help us understand the role we can have in promoting and supporting accurate and consistent growth measurements, and whether it would be of benefit for us to deliver future training.
If you are a healthcare professional we’d really appreciate if you could please spare a few minutes to complete our survey.
Take our survey
