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Child health in England in 2030: comparisons with other wealthy countries
The health of today’s children and young people (CYP) will be one of the key factors in determining whether England is healthy and prosperous over the next 50 years. In our reports, published October 2018, we used long term historical data on key CYP health outcomes and various projection modelling ...
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Community paediatric workforce - short report (2017)
Community Child Health (CCH) is the largest paediatric sub-specialty focussing on the care of vulnerable children and families, children with long-term conditions and child public health. To support this planning, RCPCH and the British Association for Community Child Health (BACCH) developed an evid...
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Covering all bases: Community child health workforce (2017)
Community Child Health (CCH) is the largest paediatric sub-specialty, focusing on the care of vulnerable children and families, children with long-term conditions and child public health. Our resources support workforce planning.
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Epilepsy12 National Organisational Audit Report 2018
This is the first formal output of Round 3 of the Epilepsy12 audit. It describes the organisation of paediatric epilepsy services for children and young people in England and Wales, as at April 2018. It shows improvements in some areas, including numbers of epilepsy nurse specialists and paediatrici...
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Epilepsy12 &Us - voices from the RCPCH &Us network
Children and young people told us about their experiences of epilepsy care in our "clinic chats" - how they want to get in touch with services, the kind of support they want to receive, their best experiences and their ideas for the future. We worked with our Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates to produce a ...
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Facing the Future audit 2017
We commit to auditing our standards so we can build a comprehensive picture of paediatric provision across the four nations. This audit report covers Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services and Facing the Future: Together for child health.
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Global child health - our impact
Since our foundation, we at RCPCH have embraced a commitment, beyond our work in the UK, to improving child health in the world's poorest countries. We train, mentor and advise on a wide range of medical issues which affect infant and child care services worldwide. Take a look at what we do, watch v...
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Shortage of consultant paediatricians - report
We use expert-agreed standards to determine how many consultant paediatricians the UK needs to deliver safe and quality care. We estimate that we need an additional 856 whole time equivalent consultants.
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State of child health 1 - Mortality indicators
Key messages and actions from three indicators on child mortality: infants (under one year); children (one to 9 years); young people (10 to 19 years).
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State of child health 2 - Conception, pregnancy and infancy indicators
This looks at smoking and pregnancy, breastfeeding and immunisation.