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NHS Pension Scheme consultation - RCPCH responds

24 July 2019

The government is consulting on proposals to make the NHS Pension Scheme more flexible and transparent for senior clinicians.

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Diabetes Quality Programme - who we are

This programme ran from April 2018 to March 2023. The staff team was supported by a range of stakeholders across England and Wales.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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Diabetes Quality Programme - Peer review

As part of the Quality Assurance stream of the programme, all participating Paediatric Diabetes Units received a peer review. A multidisciplinary team of peers spoke with the service team, relevant colleagues, patients and families to determine compliance against the standards and to identify areas ...

Diabetes

Quality improvement

Service design

Networks for health services

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Diabetes Quality Programme - Self-assessment and External Verification

Each participating paediatric diabetes unit (PDU) provided an annual self assessment against the Programme measures. This informed the peer review visit and enabled PDUs and the programme to track and report on progress and identify common areas for improvement.

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Quality improvement

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Diabetes Quality Programme - Quality Improvement Collaborative

Our QI Collaborative supported multidisciplinary teams over a nine-month training programme to share processes and develop new models of care to improve health outcomes.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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Difficult conversations are common to all paediatricians - but I wouldn't swap my career for anything else

24 July 2019

Camilla, VP for Education and Professional Development at the College, knows from talking with members about your enthusiasm and professional fulfilment... but also the challenges you face. It's when we truly listen to how people feel about their work we can start to identify solutions, together.

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RCPCH responds to the Government's Prevention Green Paper

23 July 2019

Yesterday the Government published its eagerly awaited green paper on prevention, seeking views on its proposals to tackle the causes of preventable ill health in England. We know that primary prevention that begins before birth is crucial to the success of the NHS Long Term Plan, and so RCPCH welco...

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BPSU study - Surveillance of female genital mutilation (FGM) in children and young people under the age of 16 in the UK and ROI

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a procedure which involves deliberately cutting or causing injury to the female genitals. This can include partial or total removal of the external female genitalia intentionally for non-medical reasons. There are no health benefits of FGM for girls and women and c...

BPSU

Adolescent health

Research

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Improvements made but more work to be done, says Britain's largest evaluation of NHS maternity and neonatal services

11 July 2019

RCPCH President responds to latest National Maternity and Perinatal Audit and says whilst the expansion of perinatal mental health support is particularly welcome, support services are under immense pressure. He urges an immediate moratorium on any further cuts so "pregnant women and their children ...

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Medicinal cannabis for children and young people - briefing (updated February 2020)

The law in the UK was changed in November 2018 to make prescribing of medical cannabis legal, but parents have been struggling to secure prescriptions. For parents whose children have a condition for which they feel medicinal cannabis is helping, not having the medicine readily available is incredib...

Drugs and medicines

Epilepsy