This book provides clinical staff with the knowledge needed when they encounter children and their families in primary care. It deals with the more common childhood illnesses and conditions, and provides background information and practical advice that is sensitive to primary care. It also covers social pediatrics and health promotion.About the Author: Dr Michael Bannon is a paediatrician with an interest in community child health. He has held several consultant posts in England. He has had a continuing interest in education in training and has been BPA tutor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Postgraduate Dean and more recently, Postgraduate Dean inOxford. Dr Bannon is also an associate editor for Archives of Disease in Childhood, pubilshed by BMJ publishing group. Professor Yvonne Carter was appointed as Vice-Dean of Leicester Warwick Medical Schools in 2003 and became Dean of Warwick Medical School the following year. She holds a Chair inGeneral Practice and Primary Care and is a practising GP in Coventry. She is also a Non-Executive Director at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. Between 1996-2000 she was the Chairman of Research for the RCGP and in 2000 received an OBE in the Queen's Birthday HonoursList for services to health service research. In 2004 she also received an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary, University of London for services to general practice and primary care.