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This page provides a best practice example for standard 6 of Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services, which outlines how consultant opinion is provided within Basildon Hospital's 24-hour paediatric assessment unit (PAU). PAUs can help to reduce the number of inpatient admi...

This page provides a best practice example for standard 10 of Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services. The RCPCH Child Protection Standing Committee have developed this model for teams to have access to immediate advice and assessment from a paediatrician with child protec...

Conflict can arise between health professionals and the parents of children not only where there is disagreement on the withdrawal or withholding of life sustaining treatment but also in more general routine care. In this paper for paediatricians and other health professionals we attempt to suggest ...

In July 2019, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published their prevention green paper, building on the Secretary of State’s prevention vision that was announced in November 2018. The paper contains a number of proposals to tackle the causes of preventable ill health in the England. He...

Professor Neal Halfron, an innovative thinker in child health service design, delivers "All Children Thrive", a webinar which explores emerging challenges to child health in America.

We commit to auditing our standards so we can build a comprehensive picture of paediatric provision across the four nations. This audit covered the first edition of Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services.

The BMI centile is a simple and reliable indicator of a healthy body weight in childhood. Where severe overweight or underweight is a concern, or where there is a need for monitoring weight over time, BMI can be calculated and plotted on this chart.

This page provides a best practice example for standard 10 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which describes the clinical assessment tools used in Luton as common pathways for conditions in emergency care. The tools have been embedded in practice to increase confidence in cl...

Each of us faces questions, dilemmas, even big problems in relation to our career... Our service provides personal career guidance through a network of advisors. It's free of charge to RCPCH members and fellows at different career levels - including trainees, SAS doctors and consultant paediatrician...

Are you a paediatrician in the community, an acute setting or a specialist service? Are you a nurse, allied healthcare professional in a local surgery, hospital, community setting or working one-to-one with children and young people and want to know more about engagement, participation or involving ...