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Global child health - courses and overseas placements

RCPCH Global manages health system strengthening programmes in some of the world's most challenging countries (including Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Myanmar and Lebanon). As part of our commitment to training the global workforce, we support workforce learning including online and UK-based face-to-...

Global child health

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Professor Judith Ellis awarded OBE

10 June 2019

Our former Chief Executive Professor Judith Ellis has been awarded an OBE for services to healthcare in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Judith was at the College for four successful years from 2014 to May 2018.

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Interim NHS People Plan - our summary

The interim NHS Workforce Implementation Plan, or People Plan, complements the NHS Long Term Plan that was released in January 2019. A full People Plan will be published towards the end of 2019 after the spending review, and will be fully costed alongside a detailed implementation plan for the Long ...

Paediatric training

Workforce

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Care pathways for common acute conditions - Luton and Dunstable Hospital

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...

Community services

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Integrated care

Models of care

Service planning

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Twenty-four hours community children's nursing service - South Staffordshire

This page provides a best practice example for standard 6 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the service provided by the South Staffordshire Community Children's Nursing team. The service prevents hospital admissions, facilitates early discharge and provides ca...

Community child health

Community services

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Models of care

Service planning

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Knowledge exchange sessions with GPs - Tameside Hospital

This page provides a best practice example for standard 4 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines education sessions at local GP (General Practitioner) surgeries provided by consultants and nurses from Tameside Hospital. GPs and practice nurses become more skilled a...

Primary care

Secondary care

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Integrated care

Models of care

Service planning

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Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG): Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) course

APLS provides the knowledge and skills necessary for recognition, effective treatment and stabilisation of children with life threatening emergencies, using a structured, sequential approach. The course and its principles are practiced throughout the world, and over 83,000 candidates have completed ...

Secondary care

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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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RCPCH Global - saving lives, building bridges

20 December 2018

We are approaching the end of our first year of a quality improvement intervention in Rwandan district hospitals. RCPCH Global reflects on the successes and challenges of saving lives at birth in one of the world’s poorest countries.

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Building a culture of care quality improvement - a dispatch from our combined perinatal programmes in Rwanda

4 December 2018

Mandy Lisle, a midwife working in our Rwandan Obstetric Care Programme in the country's capital city, tells us about the efforts of local health professionals and our 'Global Links' mentors to improve the care for mothers and babies.