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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Mentoring support

Access to effective mentoring support is increasingly important in the development of all paediatricians. From the early stages of training to 'pause and review' points along the paediatric career pathway, the opportunity to have regular (or intermittent) contact with another person with the appropr...

Continuing professional development

Mentoring

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Shape of Training review response - position statement (2017)

The Shape of Training report provided a timely opportunity to review how doctors are trained to meet changing needs of patients in the UK. We wish to see more integration between paediatric, primary care and mental health training.

Paediatric training

Progress+

Workforce

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Case studies for children and young people's engagement

Are you a paediatrician in the community, an acute setting or a specialist service? Are you a nurse, allied healthcare professional in a local surgery, hospital, community setting or working one-to-one with children and young people and want to know more about engagement, participation or involving ...

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Engaging children and young people

Quality improvement

Service design

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Engagement legislation briefing - RCPCH &Us

This resource provides you with the key pieces of legislation that support active involvement of children and young people in health decisions and service design.

Health policy

Governance and regulation

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

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Facing the Future Superhero

As a child or young person, you don't need superpowers! You have the right to be involved in decisions about your care and to be treated by the right people, at the right time, in the right place. It's all in our Facing the Future standards. Why don't you play our game, tell others about your rights...

Health policy

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Facing the Future - emergency care

Facing the Future - ongoing heath needs

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Standards for short-stay paediatric assessment units (SSPAUs)

SSPAUs are hospital-based facilities where infants, children and young people with acute illness, injury or other urgent referrals from clinicians can be assessed, investigated, observed and treated with an expectation of discharge in less than 24 hours. Standards are vital to guide the development ...

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Invited reviews: the first four years - evaluation 2012-2016

The RCPCH Invited Reviews service has been running since mid-2012 and has completed over 70 reviews. This report outlines the learning and findings from the first 60 reviews. It gives clinicians, managers and commissioners some ideas for 'quick wins' to improve their service or where help may be u...

Networks for health services

Service planning

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Protection of time for paediatricians to take part in Research Ethics Committees

Clinical research involving children is essential if we are to increase our understanding of childhood conditions and improve healthcare for children. Yet our 2015 survey of the paediatric workforce demonstrated that very few paediatricians have time allocated for research-related activities related...

Ethics

Research

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Consultant delivered care - an evaluation of new ways of working in paediatrics (2012)

This report concludes that children would receive better care if they had 24/7 access to a consultant or equivalent senior doctor. This module is recommended in our Facing the Future service standards.

Service design

Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services

Workforce

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Ulster Paediatric Society

A paediatric medical society based in Northern Ireland, with full membership open to all paediatric medical practitioners.