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The RCPCH launch the ‘CCT Class of 2016 – Where are they now?’ report, which reveals that just 9.6% of newly trained paediatricians took up a consultant post in community child health, raising concerns for child health.

Dr Alison Steele responds to the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) new report, published today on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children: Storing Up Trouble – A postcode lottery of children’s social care.

The GMC have released the initial findings of the annual national training survey for 2018. This is a detailed UK-wide poll of more than 70,000 doctors in training and doctors who act as trainers.

A new study reinforces calls for the Department of Health to approve the fortification of flour with folic acid to protect against neural tube defects in babies

The End Child Poverty coalition has today published figures providing a new Child Poverty map of the UK. In Wales, the figures show that over 28% of children are living in poverty, and in some constituency, this rises to a 1/3 of all children.

Child health is suffering at the hands of a disjointed approach from central Government is the warning from the RCPCH as it publishes its “State of Child Health: One year on” scorecard today. The scorecards for England, Scotland and Wales describe progress against the series of recommendations made ...

Our global child health work is mainly funded through charitable grants, but these do not give sufficient financial cover for central costs of running our project management team. In 2000, we introduced an overseas levy of 2% on the subscription for Ordinary members and Fellows. This year we have in...