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This is a joint message from RCPCH and the Royal College of General Practitioners on clinical eligibility of children and young people for COVID-19 vaccines in phase 1 of the vaccination programme.

We respond to the government's announcement of this year's flu vaccination programme, which includes Year 7 for the first time.

RCPCH today publishes its first report from Paediatrics 2040, a major project looking at how paediatrics will change over the next 20 years.

Leading paediatricians in the UK have set out a working definition of an inflammatory syndrome affecting a very small number of children and which may be associated with COVID-19.

New data from Public Health England reveals 301 new measles cases between April and June 2019. RCPCH's immunisation expert responds.

The Prime Minister has today called for urgent action to boost the number of children and young people receiving life-saving vaccinations. This comes as it is revealed that the UK has lost its "measles-free" status with the WHO, three years after it had eliminated the virus.

The move by Public Health England could prevent over 100,000 cancers. The RCPCH's Immunisation Expert responds.

We believe that child health research should be embedded as part of every paediatrician’s training, and throughout their careers. From June 2019 to 10 January 2020, we invited paediatricians working as consultants, SAS doctors and/or CCT holders to complete 2019 Participation in Child Health Researc...

Professor Helen Bedford says "England has not escaped the recent increase in cases", and urges parents to vaccinate their children to protect them from "a nasty disease which could result in life changing complications or even death".

RCPCH's immunisation expert Dr David Elliman says "compulsion may work in some countries, but it is not for us".