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Regulations and rules for MRCPCH and DCH examinations

This is the regulatory guidance and policy relevant to exam candidates preparing for the MRCPCH (membership) and / or DCH (Diploma of Child Health) examinations. These include general regulations and rules, plus a series of appendices detailing our policies related to: malpractice in exams, reasonab...

Engaging children and young people

Patient involvement

Global child health

Governance and regulation

Examinations

Paediatric training

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Involving children and young people in specialised commissioning

This guidance offers advice and tips, much of which comes directly from children and young people that use the services, about how they would like to be involved in specialised commissioning procedures.

Health policy

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Quality improvement

Service design

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Case studies for children and young people's engagement

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 ...

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Engaging children and young people

Quality improvement

Service design

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Engagement legislation briefing - RCPCH &Us

This resource provides you with the key pieces of legislation that support active involvement of children and young people in health decisions and service design.

Health policy

Governance and regulation

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

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Protection of time for paediatricians to take part in Research Ethics Committees

Clinical research involving children is essential if we are to increase our understanding of childhood conditions and improve healthcare for children. Yet our 2015 survey of the paediatric workforce demonstrated that very few paediatricians have time allocated for research-related activities related...

Ethics

Research

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Guide to training progression

Download and use our Microsoft Excel workbook to help effectively plan your future training. This is most effective for trainees in specialty training, and is not intended to predict a completion date.

Paediatric training

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Research Charter - resources (2017)

How can we work with and involve children and young people in research? Whether you're a child or young person, or a health professional - we have collated the most useful resources from other organisations.

Patient involvement

Research

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Pre-procedure pregnancy checking for under-16s: guidance for clinicians

Determining pregnancy status in young female patients under 16 years of age is an area that clinicians may find difficult. This practical guide sets out the issues, risks and approaches that NHS organisations may consider when developing their policies in this area.

Surgery

Quality improvement

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Rights of the child

All children and young people have rights. RCPCH actively supports these rights within child health, promoting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Health policy

Ethics

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

Patient involvement

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) - resources

FGM is a collective term for a range of procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. FGM, and taking a child abroad for the purpose of FGM, is child abuse. It is illegal in the UK and is a vio...

BPSU

Safeguarding