Browse our resources created with and by children, young people and families. As a patient, they can help you get involved in improving your health service. As a health professional, they can support you to meaningfully involve CYP in your work.
The 'Understand' model is designed for healthcare professionals to think about the why, how and what every time they work with children and young people.
We're supporting children and young people to stay healthy, happy and well to create a healthy future. Our activities pack and how-to guides help young people think critically about health information, research conditions in their local area and work together to improve outcomes for others.
RCPCH &Us worked with with young people to reflect on their experiences of COVID-19 and the lockdown.
This helped inform future planning for times of national crisis such as a natural disaster, another pandemic, terrorist incident or other cause of nationwide disruption.
This is a group of epilepsy experienced or interested children, young people and families who volunteer together to improve care for epilepsy patients and their families. Read about their award-winning project, the Clinic Chat Check List, and their experiences and tips on developing a school care pl...
This how to guide has been created to support your thinking around engagement and capturing the voice of children, young people and families to help shape health policy and practice.
This guidance offers advice and tips, much of which comes directly from children and young people that use the services, about how they would like to be involved in specialised commissioning procedures.
Written in 1989, the UNCRC is a set of rules, or 'articles', defining how each child and young person can be kept safe from harm, have chances to develop, become an individual and thrive. It helps us keep children and young people at the heart of all we do, through our RCPCH &Us network.
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Over the last two years, RCPCH &Us have been working with children and young people across the UK to find out what matters to them to improve their health and the services that support them. Over 3,000 children and young people have taken part, with a review group looking at the results and drafting...
Over 300 young people took part in workshops, events and activities to share their views on what would support their health and that of children and young people over the next 10 years. The full report from the consultation activity was shared with NHS England as part of the consultation in preparat...
