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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!

This week we released our key workforce report, which uses RCPCH census data to formulate essential workforce policy recommendations. The paediatric workforce must be prioritised in workforce planning to improve child health outcomes in the UK.

We have worked with NHS England on a programme to ensure children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both are able to access appropriate medication, and are not prescribed inappropriate psychotropic medication. Find out more and read our full pledge.

School-aged children from the poorest areas are two and a half times more likely to be admitted to hospital in an emergency for asthma than their counterparts in the richest areas, and this gap has grown substantially in a decade, new research reveals today.