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Recipes for Rights - children and young people in the lead - RCPCH &Us

This booklet takes you through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the five articles that children and young people have told us are important to their healthcare. Recipes include; starter activities to break the ice; patient view finders for one-to-one work; and quality improvement act...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

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Recognising neuromuscular disorders - online learning

This module focuses on a practical approach to recognising neuromuscular disorders. The target audience is Level 1 clinical staff, paediatric trainees, MDT (multidisciplinary team) members, GPs, health visitors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and school nurses.

Neurodisability

Neurology

Surgery

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Recognition and early management of meningococcal disease in children and young people

Meningococcal disease (MD) remains an important cause of mortality in children in the UK. This handbook presents discussion and learning points from clinical case histories, a background to MD, and information on making a diagnosis, pathophysiology and principles of management.

Neurology

Research

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Recommendations - external second opinions in paediatrics

Healthcare professionals, external stakeholders and families were consulted during the development of this work to understand what challenges may prevent this guidance from being adopted locally. Recommendations have been shaped to address and suggest ways of unlocking these issues.

Health policy

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Recommended undergraduate paediatric curriculum

Doctors at all levels come across children and families in their work, and it's essential that newly qualified doctors can effectively interact with, assess and care for babies, children and young people. This curriculum provides Medical Schools with a framework and recommended learning outcomes to ...

Paediatric careers

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Reducing speed limit to 20mph on restricted roads, Wales - consultation response

In August 2021, we responded to the Welsh Government’s consultation to propose to reduce the speed limit to 20mph on residential streets. We support this proposal as this will ensure that essential action will be taken to provide safer environments for children and young people to walk, play and tra...

Public health

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Refugees - statement on COVID-19

Controlling and containing the immediate and long-range threat of COVID-19 requires transnational and global coordination and collaboration. In this position statement, first published on 28 April 2020, we urge all governments to enhance their support to refugee communities, and the UK Government to...

Global child health

Refugee

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Register of interests - about and how to complete

All individuals who serve on College committees, Council, Board of Trustees, or who are in other College volunteer roles must declare interests via the RCPCH Register of Interests form. This is to ensure that personal circumstances that might compromise a volunteer’s ability to be seen as acting cor...

Governance and regulation

Membership

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Regulations and rules for MRCPCH and DCH examinations

This is the regulatory guidance and policy relevant to exam candidates preparing for the MRCPCH (membership) and / or DCH (Diploma of Child Health) examinations. These include general regulations and rules, plus a series of appendices detailing our policies related to: malpractice in exams, reasonab...

Engaging children and young people

Patient involvement

Global child health

Governance and regulation

Examinations

Paediatric training

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Reimagining the future of paediatric care post-COVID-19 - a reflective report of rapid learning

This report, published on 26 June 2020, informed RCPCH’s vision for the future of paediatrics in the UK. We summarise our learning from this period of rapid change, focusing in particular on the elements of new practice that we want to keep and take forwards into the future.