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The wait is over. The votes have been cast. Our Trainees Committee Chair, Hannah Jacob reveals this year's winners of the national Paediatric Awards For Training Achievements, or PAFTAs.

This edition's features include how to stay safe and supported during the COVID-19 pandemic, one member's experience of working in Sierra Leone and screen time for children and young people. Plus a big thank you to trainees and educational supervisors with our annual PAFTAs!

Prof Nick Bishop, VP for Science and Research, outlines some of the key developments in the College's Research & Quality Improvement Division, recognising ongoing work despite the disruptions to members' schedules. He also discusses research on the effects of COVID-19 on child health and wellbeing.

We respond to RCUK position on resuscitation and PPE.

There are many unanswered questions about children and COVID-19, including when and how we reopen schools, but, argues Russell in this week's weekly address to members, we must go back to the science.

RCPCH, along with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, responds to the debate about re-opening schools.

Dr Samantha Cooray is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics and British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher. In her recording she talks us through a Yoga Nidra practise, and provides some links for you to learn more.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children are pleased to announce their first joint clinical research fellowship award in childhood disability has been awarded to Dr Asma Soltani at the University of Cambridge. Dr Soltani will research Re...

How do we prepare for some type of return to normal of our services? In this week's blog for members, Russell looks at the 'three Rs' - how to reset, restore and recover child health services - and how we're working together to combine evidence, expertise and best practice to produce information for...

The national clinical trial to identify treatments that may be beneficial for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 will begin recruiting children and infants in May 2020.