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RCPCH responds to the Northern Ireland Assembly recall
21 July 2022
The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be recalled on 26 July.
Northern Ireland
Members working in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are represented at College Council by the Officer for Ireland - find out useful contacts and activity on your College region's web page
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Joint statement from medical royal colleges and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Conservative leadership contest
21 July 2022
Medical royal colleges and Faculties have today published a joint statement calling on the next prime minister and leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party to make health and care a priority.
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Progress+ - getting neonates and community experience
20 July 2022
We are aware that there is some anxiety around RCPCH Progress+, which goes live in summer 2023, and the rethink of how trainee paediatricians will gain their neonatal and communities experience. We recognise that these are valid concerns and that this change is coming at an ever increasingly challen...
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Extreme heat an increasing threat to health without rapid transition away from fossil fuels
19 July 2022
A joint statement from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and The Lancet Countdown on how growing extreme heat in the UK and across Europe is threatening people’s health.
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Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland- consultation response
RCPCH welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland consultation in June 2022. This sets out the proposed strategic priorities in response to the Urgent and Emergency Care Review Report, which initially launched in ...
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Reducing health inequalities: We are looking to hear about your projects
15 July 2022
Are you involved in a project or initiative in your local area that is working to tackle health inequalities in the UK? If so, we want to hear from you.
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Training principle of the month 10: Assessment is used as a learning tool
It is easy to see assessments as a tick box exercise, rather than as the learning tools they were originally intended to be. This month we hear about how assessments can be used effectively through a variety of case studies, a conversation with Head of School for London School of Paediatrics and a ...
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RCPCH raising the profile of child poverty to demand action
4 July 2022
Child poverty is a key campaigning issue for RCPCH, and we are appalled that four million children in the UK are living below the breadline. Yet this is only set to get worse with the current rising cost of living and the widening inequalities as a result of COVID-19.
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Facing the Future: Standards for children and young people in emergency care settings - audit findings
This is a summary of audit findings reported by 91 emergency departments from 2018 to early 2020, based on our Facing the Future standards in emergency care settings, which were published in 2018.
These audit findings provide an insight into how emergency care settings were delivering services a...
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Progress+ for educational supervisors - supporting your trainee through transition
In the first of our new Educational Supervisor series, and published in June 2022, 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 t...