It is essential that paediatrics is a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week specialty, with the most experienced doctors present at the busiest times.
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Membership
Considering paediatrics at home and abroadIn this blog, your President Russell Viner reflects on a busy month of travelling and meetings - and welcoming new faces!
Benefit of the monthMembers tell us they love our educational programmes, with a trainee remarking of one, "the best single course I have attended in the last year". We now offer a standard 25% discount to our members, with further reductions for trainees. -
Education and careers
Your CPD Diary is moving homeFrom late June, it will be in its new home in RCPCH ePortfolio on the Kaizen platform. -
Work we do
Auditing emergency care standardsAs a service lead, how well does your children's emergency service align with Facing the Future standards? Our audit will provide a better understanding of care and enable teams to plan improvements.
Significant gaps in the workforce...We collect data on the paediatric workforce and child health services in the UK, most recently in 2017. We provide a UK-wide overview of the findings and make five key recommendations. -
Resources
State of Child Health - todayOur new scorecards for each UK nation assess the progress, or lack thereof, made against policy recommendations from our 2017 report. They reveal a varied picture across the UK…
Learning opportunities in ScotlandFrom education and leadership to neonatal cardiology, from child protection to how to learn from each other.
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Key topics
Challenges for winterOur members told us that winter pressures are not just confined to children's Emergency Departments; they are part of a whole system problem.
Workforce censusIn this first report of the series we provide a UK-wide overview of the findings from the latest census and make five key recommendations. -
News and events
A movement for child health: where next?The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign puts the need for progress on key child health issues front and centre of the political agenda across the UK.
How to manage: gastroenterologyThis study day in Sheffield on 30 April will help you develop an approach for management of common gastrointestinal (GI) presentations.
In 'Together for child health', we look at how to diagnose and treat children and young people with acute illness quickly and close to home.
Results from our audit highlight gaps within paediatric rotas as well as poor links between primary care and the hospital child health service.
These standards apply to children who are awaiting diagnosis or are under the care of child health services to manage their ongoing health needs.
Urgent and emergency care must be fully integrated. Our new audit toolkit can support your progress in meeting these standards.
How have hospitals and clinical teams like yours implemented these standards for paediatric care?
Children's rights
At its heart, Facing the Future is about the rights of children and young people - to be involved in decisions about their care, and be treated by the right people, at the right time, in the right place.
Related news
News
A movement for child health: where next?
11 February 2019
The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign – our “Two years on scorecards” – puts the need for progress on key child health issues front and centre of the political agenda across all nations in the UK. We want to make sure we keep up momentum and make children a political priority, ...
News
Significant gaps in the workforce - findings from our census
1 February 2019
This week we released our key workforce report, which uses RCPCH census data to formulate essential workforce policy recommendations. The paediatric workforce must be prioritised in workforce planning to improve child health outcomes in the UK.
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Scoring change in 2019
25 January 2019
Its only 25 days into the New Year (happy new year by the way) and it feels like 25 months have passed. We’ve seen the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan (England), launched our own screen time guidance and hosted a roundtable with three CMOs on social media use, launched our State of Child Health 201...