Dr David Capehorn: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- GP and paediatrics specialist, GPwER Paediatrics, founder and former clinical director of the Paediatric Primary Care service Bristol and South Gloucestershire, honorary associate specialist and GP Lead Bristol Children's Hospital Emergency Department
- Quoted on
- Children's health, Cancer, Diabetes, Respiratory (asthma/COPD)
- Press citations held
- 9
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“provides an update for GPs on recognition and management of infectious diseases in children”
What Dr David Capehorn has said
“Case of the month: GP and paediatrics specialist Dr David Capehorn asks what the diagnosis could be in a toddler who presents with excessive thirst and urination, but otherwise normal behaviour and normal glucose on a urine dip.”
GP and paediatrics specialist · Children's health · 10 Sept 2026 · What is causing this toddler’s excessive thirst? ↗
“GP with paediatric specialism Dr David Capehorn discusses four orthopaedic presentations in children, advising on assessment, referral and management within primary care.”
GP with paediatric specialism · Children's health · 10 Sept 2026 · Casebook: Childhood orthopaedic conditions ↗
“Dr David Capehorn explains how to assess children presenting with short stature and when referral should be considered”
GPwER in paediatrics · Children's health · 10 Sept 2026 · Short stature in children: how to assess and when to refer ↗
“Dr David Capehorn discusses childhood migraine and how GPs can confidently identify and manage primary headache disorders while recognising potential secondary pathology requiring urgent investigation”
GPwER in paediatrics · Children's health · 10 Sept 2026 · Childhood migraine: How to diagnose confidently while recognising red flags ↗
“Catching lots of viral infections does not mean a child is immunodeficient – it is a sign their immune system is becoming more experienced.”
GPwER in paediatrics · Children's health · 10 Sept 2026 · The child who ‘catches everything’: when to reassure and when to investigate ↗
“GP and paediatrics specialist Dr David Capehorn debunks some common myths and explains some less well understood facts about cervical lymphadenopathy in children”
GP and paediatrics specialist · Cancer · 10 Sept 2026 · Paediatric cervical lymphadenopathy – myths and facts for GPs ↗
“GP and paediatrics specialist Dr David Capehorn asked readers what the next steps and likely diagnosis could be in this tricky case of an infant presenting with excessive thirst and urination”
GP and paediatrics specialist · Diabetes · 10 Sept 2026 · What was the diagnosis in this case of an infant with excessive thirst? ↗
“In the first of a new series on Dilemmas in Paediatrics, GPwER in paediatrics Dr David Capehorn discusses management of the common but tricky presentation of persistent cough in children, including identifying red flags, avoiding overdiagnosis of asthma and how to recognise protracted bacterial bronchitis”
GPwER in paediatrics · Respiratory (asthma/COPD) · 10 Sept 2026 · Persistent cough in children: when to reassure, investigate and refer ↗
Where Dr David Capehorn has been quoted
- Challenges in paediatric infectious disease: A primary care updatepulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- What is causing this toddler’s excessive thirst?pulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Casebook: Childhood orthopaedic conditionspulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Short stature in children: how to assess and when to referpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Childhood migraine: How to diagnose confidently while recognising red flagspulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- The child who ‘catches everything’: when to reassure and when to investigatepulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Paediatric cervical lymphadenopathy – myths and facts for GPspulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- What was the diagnosis in this case of an infant with excessive thirst?pulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Persistent cough in children: when to reassure, investigate and referpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
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