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The College’s new Officer for Recruitment, Dr Simon Broughton, introduces the members behind his Recruitment Team: Dr Emma Coombe, Dr Kay Tyerman and Dr Alok Sharma. The team is committed to working together to promote paediatrics as a career and to always put trainees first.

For many of us, planning ahead is a way to manage stress and workload, and to ensure we have control over our future. But what happens when major events scupper those plans? Dr Eimear McCorry explores her fears that her pandemic strategy was interrupted, and how she found ways to embrace the positiv...

Thousands of members sign an open letter urging the UK Government to change course on free school meals during the holidays.

Our standards, produced with the Child Protection Special Interest Group, provide a benchmark for consistency in commissioning and service design.

We publish our statement on the need to restore and protect child and paediatric health services this winter.

As part of our consultation on the new Shape of Paediatric Training we welcome feedback on the proposed changes to the current curriculum and overall programme structure, and would particularly like to hear thoughts on how you perceive these proposed changes could impact equality and diversity. Plea...

A new survey by the Obesity Health Alliance has revealed clear support among the UK public for far-reaching restrictions on junk food adverts, coinciding with the publication of a new position statement from the Alliance. Dr Max Davie, RCPCH Officer for Health Improvement, responds.

Steve Turner, Officer for Scotland, introduces this month's newsletter for our members in Scotland. Get caught up with the latest news...

Welcome to Russell's latest blog, reflecting on a busy month of travel, meetings and new faces at the College!

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.