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The Nuffield Trust and the Association for Young People's Health have today published the first ever international comparison of young people's health measures over time, comparing the UK to 18 other high-income countries. Professor Russell Viner, President of the RCPCH, responds.

We are asking frontline professionals their views and experiences of NHS charging for children and pregnant women. This is an open call to all health workers working with children. We are seeking to further understand the impacts of the charging regulations and wider migration policy changes in prac...

RCPCH Council has made the decision to no longer accept any funding from formula milk companies.

The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign – our “Two years on scorecards” – puts the need for progress on key child health issues front and centre of the political agenda across all nations in the UK. We want to make sure we keep up momentum and make children a political priority, ...

The UK's Chief Medical Officers have issued guidance on children and young people's use of social media and screen time.

There has been a lot in the media about mental health recently, with the government promising that mental health will be a key focus of the NHS Long Term Plan. But we know that lots of parents will still have niggling questions. Dr Lee Hudson, Mental Health Lead at the Royal College of Paediatrics a...

Unicef has launched a campaign that aims to protect children and young people from the UK's toxic air.

Members tell us they love our educational programmes, with a trainee remarking of one, "the best single course I have attended in the last year". To ensure we offer excellent value for money, we reviewed our fees and found that other organisations, including medical colleges, offer a 10% discount to...

This week we released our key workforce report, which uses RCPCH census data to formulate essential workforce policy recommendations. The paediatric workforce must be prioritised in workforce planning to improve child health outcomes in the UK.

We have worked with NHS England on a programme to ensure children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both are able to access appropriate medication, and are not prescribed inappropriate psychotropic medication. Find out more and read our full pledge.