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RCPCH News
RCPCH responds to 2012 Welsh Health Survey results
Dr Iolo Doull, RCPCH Officer for Wales, responds to Welsh Government's Health Survey.
RCPCH responds to BMA's 'Growing up in the UK' report
RCPCH President responds to BMA's 'Growing up in the UK' report.
Child Health News
News from independent organisations and not the opinion of, or endorsed, by the RCPCH.
MMR vaccination taken up by more than 50,000 in two months
More than 50,000 people have received the MMR vaccination in the past two months following the measles outbreak in Swansea, health officials have said
Coalition policies hitting children
A report has attacked a series of coalition policies which it says threaten to have profoundly deleterious effects on the lives of children.
RCPCH Blog
Turning the Tide launch
Hey guys, it’s been a while hasn’t it?
A lot has happened in the last 6 months, including the...
Cigarette packaging power
I am writing this in the context of the growing pressure mounting on government to de-glamorise cigarette packaging and...
The price of alcohol
The government are in consultation to change the price of alcohol, increasing it to 45 pence per unit. The question is...