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Dr Karen Street, Assistant Officer for Mental Health and Wellbeing, responds to a new BMA report which considers the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.

Thank you for your ongoing patience with us as we work towards safe delivery of the MRCPCH Clinical exam starting November 2020. We have been working hard with examiners, trainees, and the General Medical Council to ensure this exam remains safe, reliable and fair.  We are now in a position to provi...

Our guidance on shielding for children and young people with regard to COVID-19 has been formally adopted by the UK government.

The Government today released guidance for the full reopening of schools in England. Professor Russell Viner, President of the RCPCH, comments.

We're now starting to look forward- as we make the case for children and young people should we experience a second wave of COVID-19 this winter, and reimagine the future of child health services, as outlined in our first Paediatrics 2040 report.

RCPCH today publishes its first report from Paediatrics 2040, a major project looking at how paediatrics will change over the next 20 years.

Ranitidine products (Brand names including Zantac®) were voluntarily withdrawn by manufacturers in October 2019, because of fears that they may contain low levels of an impurity called NMDA.

Air pollution is an issue that affects everyone across the UK—not just people living in big cities. Chemicals like nitrogen oxides and particulate matter are often found at dangerous levels, and are among the pollutants posing the biggest threat to health across the population.

Today, health leaders called for a review of lessons learned during the first phase of the pandemic. We've set out an additional call for a rapid review into the experiences of children and young people during the first wave, so that they can be protected from the harshest mitigation measures if we ...

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities are overrepresented in cases of coronavirus based on what we would expect from UK population demographics. This has prompted investigations into the reasons why, and deeper discussions on how the pandemic is affecting BAME communities.