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We welcome three new Trustees to join our Board in December 2025

1 December 2025

Two new Member Trustees and one Independent Trustee join our Board this December. Each has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people and bring a wealth of knowledge.

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Honouring Dr Janet McDonagh: paediatrician, poet and advocate

28 November 2025

Dr Carol Ewing and others remember a friend and colleague who was key to the College's Adolescent Health Programme online learning and children and young people's engagement, who enriched many with her "knowledge, kindness, determination and love" and who died on 19 August 2025.

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Cataloguing the National Reye’s Syndrome Foundation Collection

28 November 2025

This blog tells the story of Reye’s syndrome, a rare but serious illness, and how the National Reye’s Syndrome Foundation’s work contributed to improving awareness and understanding of this disease. By preserving the Foundation’s records in our archive, we document this legacy and show how the advoc...

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Reflecting on two years of the RCPCH clean air programme

27 November 2025

Our Climate Change Manager, Fliss, shares lessons on pollution, inequality and child health and the collective action that shapes meaningful progress for children and their families.

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RCPCH responds to 2025 autumn budget

26 November 2025

The Chancellor has delivered the budget for 2025 and announced the end of the two-child limit to benefit payments.

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Why Wales needs a digital revolution in child health

21 November 2025

Outdated, fragmented systems are holding back child health services in Wales. It’s time for a digital transformation that puts children first writes RCPCH Wales Health Board Integration lead, Dr Saurabh Patwhardan.

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RCPCH responds to IPPR’s ‘It takes a village’ report

21 November 2025

The Institute for Public Policy Research have published a report detailing the experiences of over 1,500 parents when it comes to their children’s health.

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'Leading the way' episode 5: Dreaming big, with Dr Arnab Seal

19 November 2025

Arnab's story is ambitious and inspiring: he helped establish a new hospital and introduced a pioneering approach to healthcare in India. What dreams do we hold, and how can we create space to pursue them?

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RCPCH welcomes the introduction of Health Impact Assessments in Wales

19 November 2025

The Senedd (Welsh Parliament) approves the introduction of mandatory Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) across the nation.

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RCPCH urges UK Government to act on Sudan crisis

18 November 2025

Today, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has written to the Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, calling for urgent action to protect children, young people, pregnant women and healthcare workers affected by the escalating crisis in Sudan.