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Course

How to Manage: Refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people - online

07 June 2023

This course aims to increase awareness, knowledge, skills and confidence to assess and manage the health needs of accompanied and unaccompanied refugee and asylum-seeking children (AURASC) across medical settings.

Wellbeing for children and young people

Document

Asthma &Me Ambassadors

This is a group of asthma experienced or interested children, young people and families who volunteer together to improve care for asthma patients and their families. Read about their award-winning project and the young people involved!

Respiratory medicine

Asthma

Participation

Children and young people's voice

Resource

Pill swallowing in children podcasts

How can we as paediatric health professionals support children and young people to swallow pills? In this series of educational podcasts, produced with Kidzmed, Dr Emma Lim chats with colleagues at the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle to explore what's gone well and what they can learn.....

Drugs and medicines

Quality improvement

News

Royal Colleges across UK to illuminate to mark anniversary of deadly coup in Myanmar

31 January 2022

On Tuesday 1 February - one year since the deadly coup in Myanmar took place – Royal Colleges across the UK will light up their buildings in red in a moment of solidarity and remembrance for health workers who have risked, and lost, their lives to provide care over the past year.

Resource

Medicines for Children - information for parents and carers

Our website provides practical and reliable information to parents and carers about giving medicines to their child - with free access to information leaflets on over 200 medicines, videos and news.

Drugs and medicines

Patient information

Resource

National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) annual reports

Our annual, national reports, 'Care processes and outcomes' highlight the main findings on the quality of care for children and young people with diabetes mellitus in England and Wales. On this page you can download our latest and previous reports, and find links to our reports especially for parent...

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

Imaging in cases of suspected physical abuse in children - online learning

When managing children who have experienced suspected physical abuse, producing high quality images is crucial in enabling effective investigation of these complex cases.

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

Your baby's care - measuring standards and improving neonatal care: archived reports 2015-2020

The National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) works to improve standards of neonatal care in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. We aim to make the information we gather and share in our annual reports accessible by publishing 'Your baby's care', our guide for parents and carers. You can do...

Intensive care medicine