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We use our members' expertise and experience to promote child health and inform our responses to current news.

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RCPCH responds to hidden community waitlists

2 August 2022

Data recently revealed by the Health Service Journal paints a stark picture of the current community health backlog.

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How do we respond to workforce challenges? - President's blog

29 July 2022

In this edition Camilla explores workforce challenges and the recent reports and surveys on this issue. She also congratulates our new Chair of the Trainee Oversight Committee and settles down to listen to our new podcast on advocating for child health.

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RCPCH responds to further advice from the independent review of gender identity services for children and young people

29 July 2022

Dr Hilary Cass has written to NHS England to set out the key components of a new regional service model, as described in the Review’s interim report. The letter also provides advice on how gaps in the existing evidence base may be addressed.

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RCPCH responds to Health and Social Care Committee workforce report

26 July 2022

On the 25 July 2022 the Health and Social Care Committee published a report on Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care in England that highlights lack of decisive action from the UK Government and calls for a radical review of working conditions.

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Advocating for child health, now and in the future

26 July 2022

This is the first of our “In conversation…” series discussing the four aims of our College Strategy 2021-24. Dr Mike McKean, our VP for Health Policy speaks with Robert Okunnu, Director for Membership, Policy & External Affairs on the College’s health policy priorities.

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Dr Emma Dyer elected as Chair of the Trainees’ Committee

25 July 2022

Dr Emma Dyer will be the next Chair of the Trainees’ Oversight Committee at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and will succeed Dr Laura Kelly.

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RCPCH responds to the Northern Ireland Assembly recall

21 July 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be recalled on 26 July.

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Joint statement from medical royal colleges and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Conservative leadership contest

21 July 2022

Medical royal colleges and Faculties have today published a joint statement calling on the next prime minister and leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party to make health and care a priority.

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Progress+ - getting neonates and community experience

20 July 2022

We are aware that there is some anxiety around RCPCH Progress+, which goes live in summer 2023, and the rethink of how trainee paediatricians will gain their neonatal and communities experience. We recognise that these are valid concerns and that this change is coming at an ever increasingly challen...

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Extreme heat an increasing threat to health without rapid transition away from fossil fuels

19 July 2022

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.