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The College’s new Officer for Recruitment, Dr Simon Broughton, introduces the members behind his Recruitment Team: Dr Emma Coombe, Dr Kay Tyerman and Dr Alok Sharma. The team is committed to working together to promote paediatrics as a career and to always put trainees first.

For many of us, planning ahead is a way to manage stress and workload, and to ensure we have control over our future. But what happens when major events scupper those plans? Dr Eimear McCorry explores her fears that her pandemic strategy was interrupted, and how she found ways to embrace the positiv...

Our standards, produced with the Child Protection Special Interest Group, provide a benchmark for consistency in commissioning and service design.

We publish our statement on the need to restore and protect child and paediatric health services this winter.

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.

As part of our consultation on the new Shape of Paediatric Training we welcome feedback on the proposed changes to the current curriculum and overall programme structure, and would particularly like to hear thoughts on how you perceive these proposed changes could impact equality and diversity. Plea...

Dr Christina Tran is a Trust Doctor working in ED and paediatrics at Derriford Hospital. Here she outlines the value of exercise in maintaining positive wellbeing and what steps you can take to incorporate it into your daily routine.

Two new reports have been released outlining the findings of a snapshot survey of the UK's general paediatric and neonatal services and workforce in September 2019. The reports provide a pre-COVID benchmark and give recommendations to government, service planners and other decision makers about how ...

Russell comments on today's press conference by Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Officer.