TY - JOUR T1 - If community paediatricians did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 986 LP - 986 DO - 10.1136/adc.2005.075655 VL - 90 IS - 9 AU - C M Ni Bhrolchain Y1 - 2005/09/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/9/986.1.abstract N2 - Since 1991 there has been talk of abolishing community paediatrics as a specialty.1 At that time, a group of related specialties was proposed: a specialty of child development and rehabilitation (neurodisability); child protection would be subsumed into general paediatrics and there would be child public health doctors. Since then there has been a view among some paediatricians that community paediatricians should become the general paediatricians of the future.2,3 Dr Chambers’ recent article proposes a narrow view of community paediatrics, concentrating on chronic illness and … ER -