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Joint statement on care for people with serious illness during COVID-19
7 April 2020
Our President contributes to a joint statement by medical leaders, encouraging people to use the NHS in the usual way in the case of serious illness.
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COVID-19 - statement on delayed presentations
3 April 2020
Our President Professor Russell Viner comments on concerns about delayed presentation among children with non-COVID related illness.
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COVID-19 - statement on child deaths
2 April 2020
Our President Professor Russell Viner comments on child deaths due to COVID-19.
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Professional bodies’ response to government advice for pregnant women to reduce social contact
17 March 2020
Royal Colleges respond to new coronavirus guidance for pregnant women.
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Times letters: Doctors urged to take responsibility for NHS
26 February 2020
We responded to calls for doctors to 'take responsibility' for the NHS. Our joint letter was published in The Times.
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RCPCH responds to DHSC announcement on flexible training courses to improve recruitment
10 February 2020
The Government is to consider more flexible training for healthcare professionals who wish to switch discipline. The Department of Health and Social Care said that people who are already working as healthcare professionals "could train to become doctors and nurses more quickly now that the UK has le...
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RCPCH responds to NICE guidance on cannabidiol use in two forms of childhood epilepsy
5 February 2020
Dr Mike Linney, Registrar and Chair of the Ethics Committee for RCPCH, welcomes recent guidance from NICE, but notes the urgent need for high quality, independent research on this medicine to provide the best possible care for children with complex epilepsy.
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RCPCH responds to Professor Sir Mike Richards' review of children’s cancer services in England
31 January 2020
The review was commissioned by the Chief Executive of NHS England to assist its Board in the evaluation of responses to a consultation undertaken in summer 2019 relating to a new draft service specification for children’s cancers.
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Prisons report is shocking and appalling, says RCPCH
21 January 2020
Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, has called for a “major overhaul” of the policy of separating children in young offender institutions. We support this call and we condemn unacceptable practices such as solitary confinement and the use of restraints.
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Government must defend and protect rights of child refugees, says RCPCH
16 January 2020
Our President Professor Russell Viner comments on the Dubs amendment to protect child refugees from family separations.