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RCPCH respond to UKHSA reports of Poliovirus in London

24 June 2022

UKHSA urges the public and parents of young children who may have missed their routine vaccinations to ensure their polio vaccinations are up-to-date after polio was found in sewage in North-East London.

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Educational Supervisor: Supporting your trainee through Progress+ transition

In the first of our new Educational Supervisor series, Dr Lizzie Starkey, Assistant Officer for Trainer Development gives an update to Educational Supervisors on preparing for Progress+. She covers what the changes to the training programme will mean for supervisors and their trainees.

Knowledge and skills

Shape of training / Progress+

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Paediatricians call on government to take action as children’s waiting lists soar to 350,000 for the first time

16 June 2022

NHS England published referral to treatment waiting times for April 2022 on 16 June 2022. For the first time, we have a full year of consultant-led paediatric waiting lists data.

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Enter the NNAP photo competition 2022

16 June 2022

Has your baby been cared for in a neonatal unit in England or Wales? If so, why not enter our photo competition?

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For the first time all NHS trusts have a net zero strategy

16 June 2022

On Clean Air Day – 16th June 2022 – NHS England announced for the first time all 212 trusts have strategic plans in place to reach net zero.

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RCPCH responds to BMA report – Delivering racial equality in medicine

15 June 2022

On Wednesday 15 June 2022, the British Medical Association published a landmark report on ‘Delivering racial equality in medicine’.

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RCPCH responds to “Government food strategy” policy paper

14 June 2022

On 13 June 2022, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published an updated food strategy.

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RCPCH responds to news reports on potential for children refugees relocated to Rwanda

14 June 2022

Recent news reports have raised concerns that some age disputed children could be included as part of the Government's relocation of migrants to Rwanda under the UK Government's migration policy.

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Training principle of the month 9: Morale and job satisfaction are improved

This month, Dr Sarah Arthur inspires us with case studies on how we might rethink everyday practice to improve morale and job satisfaction in teams. And, two consultants talk us through their strategies for themselves and their colleagues.

Paediatric training

Shape of training / Progress+

Wellbeing for health professionals

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RCPCH responds to ‘Making smoking obsolete’, an independent review into smokefree 2030 policies

10 June 2022

On 9th June 2022, an independent report titled “Making smoking obsolete” was published making recommendations to the UK government to reach its objective for England to be smokefree by 2030.