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Worried and waiting: A review of paediatric waiting times in Wales 2024

This bilingual report, published February 2024, provides an analysis of ‘paediatric pathway’ waiting times data in Wales from 2016-2023, with a spotlight on the last year. The report contains recommendations for the Welsh Government, Health Boards and Health Education and Improvement Wales, which if...

Children and young people's voice

Public affairs and campaigning

Service design

Service planning

Workforce

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Preserving the world for future generations: Children and young people's perspective on how to tackle climate change

Our research report gives insight into how children and young people perceive and understand climate change.

Children and young people's voice

Climate change

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Securing our healthy future: Prevention is better than cure - report

Set in the context of a political deprioritisation of children and young people within the UK Government’s current health agenda, our report makes the case for prioritising the prevention of ill health in childhood. It was published in September 2023 by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

Public health

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Trainees participation in child health research - survey report 2023

Paediatric trainees in the UK are keen to participate in and develop skills in research. But, results from the RCPCH Trainee Research Network's survey in 2021 highlight that only a minority of trainees are involved in research - and a small group have dedicated time for research. Our report presents...

Paediatric training

Research

Workforce

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National Reviews of Maternity and Neonatal Care: Supporting the perinatal team to implement recommendations - report

This report, originally published in June 2023 and revised in August 2023, offers guidance to help local and network perinatal teams in implementing recommendations from the national reviews of maternity and neonatal care. It covers four themes: family experience, neonatal workforce, safety and lear...

Neonatal medicine

Quality improvement

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RCPCH and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - Member and volunteer data 2020-22

In our first 'Working for change'' report in 2021 we committed to annually reporting on EDI data held for our members and staff, along with aggregated disclosure rates relating to protected characteristics. We collated data from 2020, 2021 and 2022 on this page (including records up to January 2023)...

Data

Volunteering

Membership

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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Workforce reports archive - 1999 to 2024

The RCPCH (as the British Paediatric Association) undertook its first census of the paediatric workforce in 1986 and has completed a biennial census since 1999. These reports give an opportunity to see changes in the paediatric workforce over the years.

Workforce

Workforce census

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Workforce Census 2022 - Overview of our key findings and recommendations

The RCPCH Workforce Census 2022 provides an overview of paediatric and child health workforce, focusing on consultants and SAS doctors working in the UK. This report highlights key findings from the full-length report and includes three key recommendations.

Workforce

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Workforce Census 2022 - Full report

The Workforce Census provides insight into the current working life of consultants and SAS doctors in the UK. Here, we present findings from the Census and a set of key recommendations.

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RCPCH Member survey 2021 - findings

In autumn 2021 we invited all members to complete our survey to get your views on how the College should tackle key issues such as workforce shortages, climate change and paediatric recruitment. Find our key findings here, and scroll down to download the full report.

Membership