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Medicines safety alert - Erythromycin therapy
5 January 2021
Erythromycin in babies and infants has been associated with an increased risk of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
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Discounted subscription for new Associate members in 2021
16 December 2020
We're offering a 50% reduction in the first year's Associate membership subscription for doctors working in the UK. This discount extends to training fees, which gives access to RCPCH ePortfolio, as well as our journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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RCPCH Conference 2020 – adapting to the challenges of COVID-19
4 December 2020
It’s been a year of challenges but that didn’t stop us delivering the popular features of RCPCH Conference to our members and colleagues.
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Young people win a national award for epilepsy quality improvement
27 November 2020
The Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates have been selected as joint winners in the HQIP Audit Heroes Awards 2020 in the Volunteer of the Year Category, recognising their hard work to support improvements in epilepsy care.
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Council meeting summary - October 2020
24 November 2020
The College's Council last met on 1 October 2020. The main topics discussed were updates on the Climate Change working group, the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) and NDAU and the Invited Reviews service.
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2021 membership fees and renewal notice
12 November 2020
All RCPCH members will soon receive information by email about renewing their membership for 2021. This year, the RCPCH Executive Committee has decided to increase fees by 2%. This is the first subscription fee increase since 2019, following a freeze in 2020, accompanied by a substantial reduction f...
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Children and young people tell us about the “best doctor of the future”
20 October 2020
As part of our Shape of training programme, we asked thousands of children and young people what knowledge, skills and attitude the paediatrician of the future needs. The top themes? Being respectful, kind and friendly, being listened to and understood, having good communication focused on age and n...
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Update on 2021 paediatric recruitment
2 October 2020
Due to the ongoing effects of COVID-19, much of the detail around 2021 recruitment is still being finalised, but we understand that the processes are due to be signed off by the Medical & Dental Recruitment and Selection (MDRS) committee on 8 October 2020.
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TOTUM PRO now available for all members
1 October 2020
With over two hundred UK discounts and thousands worldwide from both famous brands and local independents, TOTUM provides fantastic savings on a variety of products and services from everyday essentials to electrical devices, entertainment and travel.
These discounts were previously only availabl...
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Reopening our London office - update
18 September 2020
We are delighted to be reopening our main office on Theobalds Road, central London as of 22 September. The building will be open one day a week (Thursdays), and we will continue to monitor the situation. Members and all visitors will need to complete and return a screening questionnaire before comin...