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Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates awarded the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award by HQIP

20 June 2023

On 20 June 2023, the Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates were announced as joint winners of the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). The award is one of five Clinical Audit Heroes Awards that are announced during the 2023 Clinical Audit Awareness...

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The Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates have been awarded the Richard Driscoll Memorial Award

17 November 2022

On 17th November 2022, the Epilepsy 12 Youth Advocates were announced as the winners for the Richard Driscoll Memorial Award for outstanding patient involvement in clinical audit at the annual Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) AGM.

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New COVID-19 treatment option for non-hospitalised highest risk children and young people

22 December 2021

Earlier this week, a new COVID-19 treatment became available across the UK for non-hospitalised children and young people aged 12 and over at the highest risk of severe COVID-19.

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Updated guidance on valproate use in women and girls of childbearing years is published

14 December 2020

This guidance, updated in December 2020 and endorsed by RCPCH, has been produced to inform all healthcare professionals of best practice around the use and prescribing of valproate. It supports them to navigate situations that could arise as a result of prescribing valproate to women during childbea...

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A snapshot of general paediatric and neonatal services: benchmarking for improvement and recovery

25 September 2020

Two new reports have been released outlining the findings of a snapshot survey of the UK's general paediatric and neonatal services and workforce in September 2019. The reports provide a pre-COVID benchmark and give recommendations to government, service planners and other decision makers about how ...

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UK in danger of failing a generation of children and young people, says new report

4 March 2020

The RCPCH has today published State of Child Health 2020, the largest ever compilation of data on the health of babies, children and young people across all four UK nations. The report shows that for many measures of children’s health and wellbeing, progress has stalled, or is in reverse – something...

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Help inspire the next generation of paediatricians

2 October 2019

Medicine offers students and junior doctors a vast array of specialty choices... How can we, as current trainees and paediatricians, help get paediatrics to the top of that list? Simon, the RCPCH Assistant Officer for Training (Recruitment), and Emma, Trainee Representative for Recruitment, look at ...

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Paediatrics: A wicked problem?

4 July 2019

Dr Nicola Jay, consultant paediatrician at Sheffield Children's Hospital, has been appointed as the new Officer for Workforce Planning and Health Services. She considers an example of a 'wicked problem' in paediatrics - the health workforce crisis in the UK - and how we can move forward.

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Thirteen UK healthcare bodies launch ‘pragmatic’ guidance on valproate use

29 March 2019

Experts from 13 national bodies, including seven Royal Colleges, have joined forces to launch new practical guidance to support doctors and other health professionals around valproate use in women and girls in their reproductive years.

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Scoring change in 2019

25 January 2019

Its only 25 days into the New Year (happy new year by the way) and it feels like 25 months have passed. We’ve seen the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan (England), launched our own screen time guidance and hosted a roundtable with three CMOs on social media use, launched our State of Child Health 201...

Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates awarded the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award by HQIP

The Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates have been awarded the Richard Driscoll Memorial Award

New COVID-19 treatment option for non-hospitalised highest risk children and young people

Updated guidance on valproate use in women and girls of childbearing years is published

A snapshot of general paediatric and neonatal services: benchmarking for improvement and recovery

UK in danger of failing a generation of children and young people, says new report

Help inspire the next generation of paediatricians

Paediatrics: A wicked problem?

Thirteen UK healthcare bodies launch ‘pragmatic’ guidance on valproate use

Scoring change in 2019

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