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Making Equality, Diversity and Inclusion everybody's business - EDI strategic plan 2023/24

Over the last three years our work in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has seen us achieve several objectives from the 'putting ladders down' and 'working for change' programmes of work. As we enter a new phase of our EDI strategy, our plan for 2023/24 outlines four new themes and a set of ac...

Knowledge and skills

Membership

Society

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Workforce

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Managing RSV and other respiratory viruses in 2021 - webinar recording

This free webinar, presented on 29 June 2021, was convened to support paediatricians and other child health professionals with managing bronchiolitis and other respiratory viruses this year. We looked at how to manage patient flow, ‘keeping patients safe and pathways open’, covered recognition, mana...

Emergency medicine

General paediatrics

Respiratory medicine

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Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse - consultation response

In November 2023, we responded to the Government's consultation on the introduction of Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse. This followed our response in August 2023 to the Government's call for evidence on Mandatory Reporting. We were disappointed to see an absence of acknowledgement in the m...

Safeguarding

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Medicinal cannabis for children and young people - briefing (updated February 2020)

The law in the UK was changed in November 2018 to make prescribing of medical cannabis legal, but parents have been struggling to secure prescriptions. For parents whose children have a condition for which they feel medicinal cannabis is helping, not having the medicine readily available is incredib...

Drugs and medicines

Epilepsy

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Members' recipes

Cooking serves multiple purposes. Aside from providing the fuel needed to get through the day, it can also be a fun way to express creativity and share ideas with friends and colleagues. In this feature, we showcase members' favourite recipes to inspire and indulge with!

Membership

Wellbeing for health professionals

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

These updated 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 i...

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NHS Long Term Plan - A summary of child health proposals

We’re pleased to see infants, children and young people placed front and centre of the NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019. The Plan contains a number of measures which will, if implemented, make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of children and help to achieve our vision for t...

Oral health

Autism

Learning disability or learning difficulty

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OPEN UK (Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks in the UK)

OPEN UK is a clinical network connecting NHS Health Boards and Trusts that provide care for children with epilepsies with regional epilepsy networks and a UK Working Group.

General paediatrics

Neurology

Epilepsy

Clinical guidelines and standards

Networks for health services

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Our manifesto for the next UK General Election – support children’s health and wellbeing in a changing world (2024)

The next General Election is expected to be called by the Prime Minister in 2024 and with political parties already preparing their policy platforms for the campaign period, we need to be prepared. That is why we’ve published our manifesto that calls on political parties to support children’s health...

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Making Equality, Diversity and Inclusion everybody's business - EDI strategic plan 2023/24

Managing RSV and other respiratory viruses in 2021 - webinar recording

Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse - consultation response

Medicinal cannabis for children and young people - briefing (updated February 2020)

Members' recipes

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

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

NHS Long Term Plan - A summary of child health proposals

OPEN UK (Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks in the UK)

Our manifesto for the next UK General Election – support children’s health and wellbeing in a changing world (2024)

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