TY - JOUR T1 - Fifteen-minute consultation: Guide to communicating with children and young people JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323302 SP - edpract-2021-323302 AU - Gail Davison AU - Richard Conn AU - Martina Ann Kelly AU - Andrew Thompson AU - Tim Dornan Y1 - 2021/12/02 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2021/12/01/archdischild-2021-323302.abstract N2 - This article suggests communicative steps and strategies to help healthcare professionals achieve the ideals of child-centred care, which place children and young people at the centre of policy and practice. For those with 15 s, not 15 min, our suggestions can be summarised like this: help children be active agents in their own care by asking, listening well, being curious and explaining things clearly in an accessible but not condescending way. ER -