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New alliance launched in response to crisis in children’s health services
19 September 2025
25 organisations have united to help build a workforce for the healthiest generation of children ever.
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Supporting school attendance - a role for all healthcare practitioners
8 September 2025
As children and young people return to school, RCPCH has come together with the Royal College of Nursing on a briefing with our members on the role of healthcare practitioners in promoting school attendance.
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Paediatricians welcome the expansion of Martha’s Rule
4 September 2025
Martha’s Rule is a scheme that gives patients and their families the legal right to request an urgent second medical opinion if they feel their concerns are not being properly addressed.
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RCPCH welcomes plans to ban sale of energy drinks for under-16s
3 September 2025
The government will consult on banning the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s in England due to negative impacts on children's physical and mental health.
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RCPCH responds to NHS England’s 10-point plan for resident doctors
3 September 2025
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) have responded to NHS England’s publication of a 10 Point Plan to improve resident doctors’ working lives.
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RCPCH responds to NSPCC polling data on physical punishment
21 August 2025
New NSPCC polling reveals four out of five parents with a child under 18 in England (81%) believe it’s unacceptable for adults to use physical punishment on their child, with a similar number of young adults (82%) in agreement.
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RCPCH responds to GMC’s workplace experiences 2025 report
8 August 2025
The General Medical Council has published ‘The state of medical education and practice in the UK Workplace experiences 2025’ report.
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RCPCH Engagement In Palestine
For over a quarter of a century, from its foundation in 1996, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has engaged with and supported aid for Palestinian families and children in the Occupied Territories and through their dispersed refugee communities. This work has, throughout, been based ...
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More children ill from poverty – bleak paediatricians survey on anniversary of Child Poverty Taskforce
17 July 2025
A survey of paediatricians – published today on the one-year anniversary of government’s Child Poverty Taskforce – reveals that children are experiencing more severe health issues due to poverty, placing a system already stretched thin under much more considerable strain as well as affecting health ...
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RCPCH responds to the Leng Review
16 July 2025
Professor Gillian Leng CBE has published her independent report looking at the safety and effectiveness of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate profession.