Press release

RCPCH calls on the UK Government to finally implement mandatory guidelines on the amount of sugar and salt that baby food can contain.

The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) has published her one year-on progress report to More Than a Number: A Rights Based Review of Child Health Waiting Lists.

In an open letter, over 1,000 child health professionals have written to Governments across the UK calling for a clear commitment to reduce poverty and tackle widening child health inequalities.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is today publishing a bank of resources that will help paediatricians to support families who come to their clinics and are suffering from the impact of poverty, low wealth, and inequalities. 

Lower income families are now facing the most serious cost of living crisis in decades.

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.

On 12 July 2022, the End Child Poverty Coalition, a coalition of charities of which RCPCH is a member, published statistics outlining rates of child poverty across the UK.

NHS England published referral to treatment waiting times for April 2022 on 16 June 2022. For the first time, we have a full year of consultant-led paediatric waiting lists data.

The Auditor General for Wales has today published a report setting out the findings from their high-level review of how NHS Wales is tackling the backlog of patients waiting for planned care.

Following publication of a report by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives in 2019 that identified significant improvements to maternity services needed at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, the Welsh Government set up an Independent Maternity Se...