The alternative was to notify the case to Child, Youth and Family, which often seemed too big a step for an unconfirmed suspicion. What's he going to do?"ĭr Kelly said if the parents looked all right, the GP probably wouldn't even mention it. "He listens to the chest and notices the child's got two or three bruises on their chest, which is an unusual place. He's sitting in his practice at 10 o'clock on a Friday night and this child comes in with bronchiolitis. "You've got this poor GP who's had two hours' training in his fifth year. Family doctors need more help to deal with suspected child abuse cases, says Starship paediatrician Dr Patrick Kelly.ĭr Kelly - who has advised the Government that all professional groups should work as a team to tackle the problem - said GPs probably saw at least as many cases as social workers but they had virtually no experience to prepare them for the awkward questions involved.
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