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Our Officer for Health Improvement, Dr Max Davie, writes about the sudden shake-up of England's public health system.

We look ahead to plans for digital growth charts, which will be available to parents and carers in 2021.

According to a new international analysis looking at child health measures over time and across 14 comparable countries, published today by the RCPCH and the Nuffield Trust, child health outcomes for babies and young children in the UK are poor compared to comparable countries.

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.