General practitioner

Course

Child Protection Study Day, Scotland (online)

29 September 2021

This annual event highlights developments in Child Protection. Specially developed for a Scottish audience, this course, will give delegates updates into particular child protection areas and will address common challenges faced by general paediatricians when concerns arise about risk of harm to chi...

Area of medicine

Child and adolescent mortality

Community child health

Wellbeing for children and young people

Safeguarding

Child protection

Physical abuse

Document

DCH Online Clinical examination - information hub

Our Diploma of Child Health Clinical exam is now being delivered online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This page has the guidance you need to prepare for this adapted exam, including recordings of our webinars, frequently asked questions and candidate resources.

Examinations

Course

DCH Clinical COVID adapted exam preparation - online

03 November 2021

This one-day course will familiarise you with the Diploma of Child Health Clinical exam. You will gain a greater understanding of the assessment criteria, the key skills required, the pitfalls to avoid by focusing on exam technique and, through practice, how to approach each station. Please note:...

Examinations

Course

How to Manage: Eating Disorders (online)

06 October 2021

This course is now fully booked. An online course that will provide you with a clinical framework for the recognition, clinical risk assessment and management of children and young people with eating disorders. This study day will take place via zoom.

Course

How to Manage: Recognising neuromuscular disorders - free online course

03 November 2021

An online course that will help you develop an approach for early recognition of a wide-range of neuromuscular disorders. This study day will take place via Zoom. Please note this course is not for paediatricians, it is for nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists, GPs and AHPs.

Community child health

Neurology

News

Why we chose Python for the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts project

30 January 2021

When Dr Marcus Baw and colleagues set out to develop a new API for growth charts, they knew they'd have pick a technology with which to build a server. But which to choose? Here's why Python is the best programming language for this project.

Resource

Educational webinar archive

We run short, free and accessible educational updates for health professionals on topics ranging from clinical conditions to service design. The following list of webinars is presented with the most recent recording first.

Health policy

Continuing professional development

News

We need to address staff shortages across the child health workforce

11 March 2020

Staff shortages are among the most high-profile issues facing the NHS today—a scarcity that is felt within the paediatrics workforce.

Resource

Workforce census: Focus on vulnerable children and families paediatric workforce (2020)

This report, published in January 2020, focuses on lead roles concerning safeguarding, the child death service, looked after children (LAC) and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

Community child health

Community services

Workforce

Workforce census

Resource

GP streaming and impact on patient flow in the ED - winter pressures case study

Dr Michael McCarron, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Grid Registrar (ST8) from Sheffield Children’s Hospital, outlines the introduction of a GP streaming model and its impact on patient flow through the emergency department.

Emergency Department

Service design

Winter pressures