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MRCPCH Examiners and Senior Examiners - portal

This page is a resource for MRCPCH Examiners and Senior Examiners. From this page you will be able to access the documents and resources relevant to each of these roles. Please scroll down to the relevant section. Note: As the below links are restricted to current examiners and senior examiners,...

Examinations

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MRCPCH/DCH Foundation of Practice exam preparation – online learning

Preparing for the FOP theory exam? Our online learning includes pre-recorded lectures, quizzes and links to resources about topics that have proven particularly challenging to exam candidates in the past. Case scenarios focus on ethics in medicine, safeguarding, adolescent health and more. The fe...

Examinations

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Multidisciplinary teams in paediatrics - a guide

A multidisciplinary team, or MDT, is so important in how integrated health care is delivered to children and young people. Each member of an MDT brings their expertise and work together to review a child’s condition, plan ongoing management and ensure that the child receives the best possible person...

Paediatric careers

Choose paediatrics

Paediatric sub-specialty

Service design

Workforce

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Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - Member briefing on new NICE guideline

On 31 October 2021, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated version of the ME/CFS clinical guideline. The RCPCH consulted on the guideline and met with NICE as they worked with patient groups and representative organisations to finalise the guideline. This b...

Community child health

General paediatrics

Safeguarding

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National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (Stage 2) - consultation response

In September 2024, we responded to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's call for views on the draft amendments ahead of the formal Stage 2 proceedings of the National Care Service Bill. Below is a short summary, with our full response available in the downloads section.

Service design

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National Diabetes Quality Programme - Impact report 2023

This report highlights the impact our programme had on paediatric diabetes units across England and Wales from 2018 to early 2023, from the successful Quality Improvement Collaboratives to individual service peer reviews and self-assessment.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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National Diabetes Quality Programme - Self-assessment report 2018-2022

This report provides an overview from the self-assessments completed by paediatric diabetes units in England and Wales between 2018 and 2022. More than 150 self-assessment measures evaluate compliance to the programme and to Best Practice Tariff requirements.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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National guidance for the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections (2023)

These recommendations on the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections in hospital settings are for clinicians to support planning in partnership with local infection prevention control teams. While some recommendations describe organisational structures in Englan...

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National guidance for the restoration and recovery of elective surgery in children

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cessation of all but the most urgent elective children’s surgical cases during the period of peak prevalence of infection in the general population. There is now a focus on addressing the huge backlog of procedures which have been delayed since the beginning of ...

Area of medicine

Surgery

COVID-19

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National Neonatal Audit Programme - Data dashboard

This clinical audit, commissioned by HQIP, aims to improve care to babies admitted to a neonatal unit in England, Scotland, Wales and Isle of Man. Our interactive dashboard shows data on our 10 performance metrics and is updated on a monthly basis. The link to the dashboard is below.

Neonatal medicine

Data