Care setting

Course

How to Manage: FASD in Community Paediatric Services (online)

16 November 2021

This course has been designed to help you develop an understanding of how to assess and diagnose FASD within a local child development service including assessment of key domains, and diagnostic formulation. This study day will take place via Zoom.

Wellbeing for children and young people

Event

Session - Patient safety 2020-2030: looking to a safer future

16 June 2021

Part of RCPCH Conference Online, this session focuses on the challenges we face to deliver safe care, with some solutions on how to develop reliable systems to improve the safety of care for babies and children. This is the World Health Organisation decade of patient safety, and this year the WHO Wo...

Event

Specialty symposia - Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine

15 June 2021

An afternoon exploring the latest advances in paediatric emergency medicine with sessions delivered by experts in these field. This is part of the RCPCH Conference Online 2021 programme.

Emergency medicine

Care setting

Emergency Department

Event

Specialty symposium - British Association for Community Child Health

15 June 2021

An afternoon exploring the latest advances in community child health with sessions delivered by experts in these field. This is part of the RCPCH Conference Online 2021 programme.

Area of medicine

Community child health

Care setting

Community services

COVID-19

Basic page

BPSU study - Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

Surveillance of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is due to commence in March 2021. In conjunction with parallel reporting through the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Surveillance System, this study aims to establish incidence rates of ARFID presenting to secondary health care, refe...

Area of medicine

Academic medicine

Allergies

Community child health

News

Disability Matters: a welcome addition to the medical school curriculum

20 January 2021

Elizabeth Lawson, a final year medical student, discusses the benefits of learning about disability medicine via this online resource and recommends its use alongside traditional undergraduate teaching methods.

Resource

Epilepsy12 & OPEN UK National Conference 2020 resources

On 10 September 2020, we hosted our third annual Epilepsy12 & Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks (OPEN UK) national conference 2020: 'Working together to improve epilepsies’, as a live webinar. Access resources and presentations from the event on this page.

News

RCPCH welcomes People Plan but warns recruitment crisis cannot wait

30 July 2020

Our President, Professor Russell Viner, responds to the publication of the NHS People Plan 2020/21.

News

Joint letter to Lord Deighton on ongoing PPE supply challenges

27 April 2020

Access to and supply of personal protective equipment remains a significant issue. Last week the Government appointed Lord Deighton to oversee efforts to improve the supply of PPE.

Volunteering opportunity

Nominations for College posts: Scotland

Closing date

14 June 2021

Members in Scotland take up crucial roles on our Scottish Committee and UK-wide groups - whether contributing to the development of Scottish Government policy or responding fellow paediatricians across the nation.