Adolescent health

News

RCPCH statement in response to CMOs advice regarding offering COVID-19 vaccination to all 12-15 year olds

13 September 2021

RCPCH statement in response to the recommendation from the four UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) regarding offering COVID-19 vaccinations to all 12-15 year olds.

Course

Child Protection Study Day, Scotland (online)

29 September 2021

This annual event highlights developments in Child Protection. Specially developed for a Scottish audience, this course, will give delegates updates into particular child protection areas and will address common challenges faced by general paediatricians when concerns arise about risk of harm to chi...

Area of medicine

Child and adolescent mortality

Community child health

Wellbeing for children and young people

Safeguarding

Child protection

Physical abuse

Event

Epilepsy12 & OPEN UK National Conference 2021

14 September 2021

We are hosting our fourth annual Epilepsy12 & Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks (OPEN UK) national conference as a live interactive event, with the theme, 'Working together to improve epilepsies'. Registration closed on Monday at 10:00.

Continuing professional development

Children and young people voice

Quality improvement

Resource

Epilepsy12 - national organisational audit and clinical audit - 2021

Epilepsy is the commonest significant neurological disorder affecting children and young people. Published in July 2021, these latest results from Epilepsy12 provide insight into the diagnosis and care of children and young people with epilepsy, and the organisation of paediatric epilepsy services i...

Children and young people voice

Public health

Wellbeing for children and young people

Quality improvement

News

Paediatricians warn parents to be alert to signs of eating disorders over holidays

28 December 2020

Paediatricians have seen a huge rise in cases of anorexia nervosa and other food restriction disorders in this age group, with some reporting a doubling, tripling or even quadrupling of cases compared with the same period last year.

News

Updated guidance on valproate use in women and girls of childbearing years is published

14 December 2020

This guidance, updated in December 2020 and endorsed by RCPCH, has been produced to inform all healthcare professionals of best practice around the use and prescribing of valproate. It supports them to navigate situations that could arise as a result of prescribing valproate to women during childbea...

News

RCPCH statement on the ruling in the judicial review, Bell v Tavistock

8 December 2020

We have carefully reviewed this court ruling, which addresses the consent of children and young people to the use of puberty suppressing drugs as part of the treatment of gender dysphoria. We consider that the ruling should not have implications for the general ethical or legal framework for childre...

Resource

Digital by default or digital divide? Virtual healthcare consultations with young people 10 – 25 years

One effect of COVID-19 has been the rise in remote consultations. This joint statement, developed in September 2020, outlines some of the issues that need to be considered when undertaking virtual consultations with young people.

Document

COVID-19 &Us - views from RCPCH &Us

RCPCH &Us is working with young people to reflect on their experiences of COVID-19 and the lockdown. This will help inform future planning for times of national crisis such as a natural disaster, another pandemic, terrorist incident or other cause of nationwide disruption.

Mental health

COVID-19

Reset, Restore, Recover

Adolescent health

Participation

Children and young people voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

Wellbeing for children and young people

News

We can’t be complacent in stubbing out smoking among young people

18 March 2020

The overall rates of smoking among UK adults and young people have declined in recent decades. Legislation around the consumption, sale and advertisement of cigarettes has become tighter, and wide-reaching public health campaigns have taken effect.