Six years ago, Andrew Mowat, a Lincolnshire GP, had a child patient he suspected was suffering abuse, but he didn't know what to do about it. "There were two ways I realised I could respond: to pass it on to someone else and not learn from it, or to engage with the problem and learn how to solve it for next time," he recounts.
Through the child protection training he embarked on, organised by his local area child protection committee, he realised the "tremendous potential" GPs and primary health care workers can have in ensuring children are safe.
Now the case of each child on Mowat's patient list and the child protection register is reviewed by a multi-agency team each month, thanks to the child protection team Mowat has set up and now chairs at his practice.
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