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July is Group B Strep (GBS) Awareness Month. Jane Plumb, Chief Executive of Group B Strep Support, a charity dedicated to providing general information and guidance about GBS, writes a guest blog to raise awareness about the risks associated with Group B Strep.

Mental health services at 'crisis point' says RCPCH Officer for Wales, 'and require urgent support.'

The Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group, a coalition of health and maternity organisations, calls for bold Government action, amid concerns that new Government data will reveal that there has been no change in rates of smoking among pregnant women for over a year.

The Children, Young People and Education Committee has published an inquiry on improving the emotional and mental health of children and young people in Wales. 

We asked Serena Haywood what she thinks about resilience, and her suggestions for helping negotiate the difficult days.

"It’s not weak to fail. It’s not a failure to be human. Doctors are not gods or monsters but we can feel or be made to feel both, often simultaneously." Serena Haywood, neurodevelopmental paediatrician at St George's University Hospital, writes about her own experiences of mental health, and why it ...

Since the post-war period, socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight have reversed in the UK – with disadvantaged children originally being more likely to be thinner than more advantaged children, but now typically being more likely to be overweight or obese, according to an observational stud...

Representatives of the RCPCH met with senior leadership at the GMC on 27 February 2018 to discuss issues arising from the recent GMC appeal regarding Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba.