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RCPCH responds to the Scottish Budget 2024-25
20 December 2023
The Scottish Government has published its Scottish Budget for 2024 to 2025.
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RCPCH responds to Infection related deaths of children and young people in England report
18 December 2023
The report is compiled of data from the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) to investigate infection related deaths in children and young people.
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RCPCH responds to long awaited vaccine strategy
13 December 2023
NHS England has published its overdue vaccination strategy, ‘Shaping the future delivery of NHS vaccination and immunisation services’.
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RCPCH welcomes global commitment to COP28 Health Declaration
7 December 2023
The COP28 Presidency, in partnership with the World Health Organization and UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, has unveiled the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health’.
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RCPCH responds to worrying health data in latest children's commissioners report on children seeking asylum
30 November 2023
The report highlights several serious health and safeguarding concerns for unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK.
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Measles resurgence forces children's doctors to update national guidance ahead of potential outbreak
21 November 2023
Paediatricians are being asked to look out for measles amid the winter season while also calling on Government for the long-awaited vaccine strategy.
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RCPCH contributes to urgent and emergency care report
21 November 2023
The report, Right Place, Right Care: Learning the Lessons from the UK Crisis in Urgent and Emergency Care in 2022, was published by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) provides cases studies and analysis of last year’s crisis in Emergency Care.
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Paediatricians call on UK Government to reverse international aid cuts this World Children's Day
19 November 2023
Statement by the International Child Health Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ahead of the UK Global Nutrition Summit on World Children’s Day, November 20 2023.
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RCPCH Wales responds to Welsh Government’s decision not to extend school meals during holidays
17 November 2023
The Welsh Government has outlined their decision in an impact assessment document.
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RCPCH responds to latest National Child Mortality Database figures
10 November 2023
The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) has published a report summarising the number of child deaths up to 31 March 2023.