Paediatric Visiting Club

“We started the club in 1957 with the main purpose of seeing how the
other chaps do the same job both here and abroad.”

John Apley, July 1965

In the early years nearly all paediatricians were single-handed and working to lay the foundations of the specialty. It was therefore especially useful for them to visit each other’s units, and to exchange ideas on the delivery, as well as the clinical substance of paediatrics.