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Minimum unit pricing comes into force in Scotland
1 May 2018
RCPCH Officer for Scotland says the move will ‘reduce harm to children’.
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Inquiry into the emotional and mental health of children published
27 April 2018
The Children, Young People and Education Committee has published an inquiry on improving the emotional and mental health of children and young people in Wales.
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More resource needed or we’ll ‘burn out’ and services will become more unsafe say children’s doctors
25 April 2018
Additional resourcing of children’s health services is urgently needed as a new report highlights the daily struggle hospitals face to meet standards that provide children with high quality, safe and consistent healthcare.
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RCPCH statement on the Alfie Evans case
24 April 2018
"As healthcare professionals involved in the care of babies, children and young people, the priority has to be the child", says RCPCH President. This case is extremely difficult for all involved; heartbreaking for his parents and emotionally challenging for the doctors and nurses involved in treatin...
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Abolish solitary confinement for children and young people
18 April 2018
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has called on the Government to take immediate steps to end the solitary confinement of children and young people in the youth justice system.
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Abolish postcode lottery to good dental health, say children’s doctors
11 April 2018
Children’s doctors are today calling for councils to give every child an equal opportunity to good dental health as a survey of 1,000 Mumsnet users reveals around one quarter had problems accessing free NHS dental care.
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RCPCH responds to CQC report on state of care
11 April 2018
Today, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its analysis of the quality and safety of care provided by independent acute hospitals across England.
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Sugar tax now in force
6 April 2018
This new measure aims to reduce childhood obesity rates and improve the health of the nation.
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Professor Russell Viner takes up role as RCPCH President
4 April 2018
Professor Viner, an academic paediatrician and adolescent physician at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London, has offically taken up the position of RCPCH President. Russell works clinically in paediatric and adolescent diabetes at University College Hospital.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight reversed in the UK between 1953 and 2015
21 March 2018
Since the post-war period, socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight have reversed in the UK – with disadvantaged children originally being more likely to be thinner than more advantaged children, but now typically being more likely to be overweight or obese, according to an observational stud...