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    We have updated our national recommendations on the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections, to use in partnership with your local infection prevention control team.
    Guidance
    Graphic: List and tick on a network diagram
    IHA delivery standards
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    Standards
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      • Genomics
      • Greener paediatrics
      • Industrial action in the NHS
      • NHS 10 year health plan
      • Nutrition and obesity
      • Prevention of ill health
      • Strengthening community child health services
      • Winter planning
      • Your wellbeing
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    On community child health services
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    Tune in to our Leading the Way podcast
    Leadership is not about hierarchy: it’s about connection, contribution and culture. Jonathan speaks with RCPCH President Steve Turner on our latest episode.
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Why good prevention policy means providing the best possible start in life for children and young people

17 October 2019
Our work on prevention is a vital part of our advocacy with policy makers and politicians. In this article Max Davie writes about our response to the green paper on prevention, and why focusing on the early years is so important for children and young people.
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  • Health inequalities
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RCPCH responds to publication of Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales

17 October 2019
Today the Welsh Government published its long term strategy to prevent and reduce obesity. Our Officer for Wales responds.
  • Announcement
  • Obesity
  • Public health
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Sarah Cartwright

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Non-UK graduates less likely to be appointed to consultant posts, survey finds

10 October 2019
Paediatricians who qualified from medical school in a non-UK country are less likely to be offered a consultant post than their UK-trained peers, according to survey of 155 doctors by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
  • Media response
  • Paediatric careers
  • Paediatric training
  • Workforce
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RCPCH responds to CMO report on obesity

10 October 2019
The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, has today released an independent report entitled "Time to Change Childhood Obesity". RCPCH President, Professor Russell Viner, responds.
  • Breastfeeding
  • Health inequalities
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  • Obesity
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RCPCH responds to first quarterly report on delivery of recommendations at Cwm Taf

9 October 2019
In April this year, the Welsh Government published a report produced by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives, reviewing maternity services at Cwm Taf Health Board.
  • Invited reviews
  • Maternity
  • Media response
  • Patient safety
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ICS and STP strategic plans - recommendations

The RCPCH is committed to ensuring that children and young people's needs, and those of the workforce that serves them, are represented in the strategic plans produced by ICSs and STPs in England.
Health policy
Service design
Workforce
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Question Setting Groups for Theory exams - volunteering opportunities

We invite members with the MRCPCH to come along to a Question Setting Group (QSG) to collectively write questions for our Theory exams. It's a great opportunity to develop skills and support the next generation of paediatricians.
Continuing professional development
Examinations
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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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