Whatever your career stage, you'll get valuable insights beyond your core specialty.
Grand Round webinars take place every other Friday at lunchtime (not during UK school holidays), and started on 12 September 2025. They are hosted on Microsoft Teams, which you can join via the app or a web browser.
Register at any time for the 2025-26 series.
Before each webinar, we'll email you a calendar invite with the joining link. (You'll need to be registered for the series at least three hours before a webinar to get the joining link.)
After each webinar, we'll email you a link to each webinar's recording.
About
Whether you're a consultant, trainee, nurse, or allied health professional, these webinars are designed to keep you up to date, improve your practice and broaden your perspective.
- Relevant, high-quality content - Each webinar is led by expert speakers who bring cutting-edge knowledge and real-world experience to topics that matter - from clinical innovations to social determinants of health. You’ll gain insights that go beyond your specialty and help you see the bigger picture in child health.
- Practical learning you can apply - Sessions are designed to be immediately useful. You’ll leave with actionable takeaways, whether it’s a new approach to diagnosis, a better understanding of policy, or tools to support advocacy and prevention in your daily work.
- Interactive - With live Q&A segments, you can engage directly with speakers and ask questions.
- Flexible and accessible - The webinars are held every other Friday at lunchtime, making them easy to fit into your schedule. If you can't attend the live webinar, you'll get a link to the recording so you catch up at your convenience.
- Supports your continuing professional development - Participation contributes to your CPD. It’s a simple, free way to stay current and meet your learning goals throughout the year.
Audience
Health professionals working with children and young people
Upcoming webinars
The webinars are subject to change but we will do our best to notify registrants of any changes.
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 9 January 2026 | Safer medicines for your patients | Stephen Tomlin, Children's Medicines Centre Director, Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Friday 23 January 2026 | Vaping: Are we sleepwalking into a public health disaster? | Dr Ross Langley |
| Friday 27 February 2026 | Vaccination and infectious disease | Dr David McIntosh |
| Friday 13 March 2026 | General paediatric research incubator and prioritisation | Katrina Cathie & Louisa Pollock, GAPRUKI Chairs |
| Friday 27 March 2026 | Pancreatitis in children: Why early diagnosis matters | Dr David Campbell, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Newcastle |
| Friday 17 April 2026 | Paediatrics: Not just little decision-making | Professor Damien Roland |
| Friday 1 May 2026 | Blood pressure in children: How high is too high and what to do | Professor Manish Sinha (Evelina) |
| Friday 5 June 2026 | Medicolegal essentials: What you should know | Professor May Ng |
| Friday 19 June 2026 | Obesity | Dr Nikki Davis, Paediatric Endocrinology & Obesity |
Past webinars
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 12 September 2025 | Asthma diagnosis, monitoring and treatment in children: an update | Professor Steve Turner, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
| Friday 26 September 2025 | Poverty and the paediatrician: what can you do? | Dr Ian Sinha, Paediatric Respiratory Consultant |
| Friday 10 October 2025 | Kids and screens: What's all the fuss? | Dr Louise Milne, Consultant Paediatrician and Dr Kelly Brown, Consultant Neonatologist |
| Friday 24 October 2025 | Human nutritional rights: What would the Persians say of Welsh society? | Dr David Tuthill |
| Friday 7 November 2025 | Challenges from primary to secondary care | Professor Kamilla Hawthorne, President, Royal of General Practitioners |
| Friday 21 November 2025 | Paediatrician's guide to tuberous sclerosis complex | Dr Yincent Tse, Dr Frances Elmslie and Luke Langlands |
| Friday 5 December 2025 | Neonatal bacterial meningitis: Forty years of research and practice and what comes next | Professor Ifeanyichukwu Okike |
| Friday 19 December 2025 | Trainee Takeover: Presentations from across the UK | Dr Lauren Hockley Dr Ffion Roblin Dr Mikaela Frixou Dr Alice Glaysher |
View the recordings of past webinars
For more information
Please contact the RCPCH Education Team by email: rcpchlearning@rcpch.ac.uk