Care setting

Course

Hands on Neonatal & Paediatric Echocardiography Course (Face to face)

01 November 2025

Brighton

This is a Basic Plus Hands on face-to-face Course that will benefit paediatric, neonatal, PICU and Emergency Paediatrics trainees and consultants, and Advanced Nurse Practitioners and cardiac sonographers who have recently commenced or intend to commence performing echocardiograms on neonates and ch...

Community child health

Emergency medicine

General paediatrics

Inherited metabolic medicine

Intensive care medicine

Course

Flexible Bronchoscopy Course for Paediatric Intensivists

26 September 2025

Liverpool

This is a hands-on flexible bronchoscopy workshop for paediatric intensivists to help manage critically ill ventilated children.

Area of medicine

Intensive care medicine

Respiratory medicine

Care setting

Tertiary care

News

Collaboration or integration - from our St David's Day Conference

24 March 2025

This excellent event took place last month, curated by our trainee members. Through a series of presentations, we looked at how integrated care can help address complexity and bring efficiency, but also how to link in with others' expertise and perspective.

Document

NHS 10 year plan: A community shift that works for children - briefing

This briefing is on one of the three proposed shifts in the 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS in England. It explains the value of providing child health services in the community, and the current pressures across children's community services and primary care. We want to see the shift into the commun...

News

RCPCH responds to Children’s Commissioner’s report on waiting times for neurodevelopmental conditions

18 October 2024

This report, using the Children’s Commissioner’s legislative powers, provides new insights into waiting times for children with neurodevelopmental conditions in community health and mental health services in England.

Resource

Transforming child health services in England: a blueprint

Children are waiting longer than adults to access healthcare, paediatric services are not recovering at the same rates as adult services, and there is a growing gap between demand and capacity. This has coincided with an unprecedented increased demand for children’s health services, which is forecas...

Resource

Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - RCPCH Wales responds

In January 2024 we responded to the Senedd Children, Young People and Education Committee's inquiry into the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill. Our response was prepared in collaboration with the Welsh Institute for Physical Activity, Health and Sport (WIPAHS). WIPAHS is a pan-Wales, multi-...

Wellbeing for children and young people

News

Fresh beginnings or just another year...

22 January 2024

In his first blog of the year for RCPCH, Dr Nick Wilkinson, Officer for Wales, explores change, long-term health outcomes, political landscape and, of course, secret stashes of chocolates.

News

New tool for spotting deterioration in children released for roll out in England

3 November 2023

Paediatricians and other child health professionals based in England can now start transitioning towards using the new inpatient Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) chart which has been released by NHS England for use today.

News

RCPCH statement on Government response to Bill Kirkup report on East Kent

21 July 2023

On 20 July 2023, the Government published its full response to the independent review – led by former Regional Director of Public Health Dr Bill Kirkup CBE – into neonatal and maternity failings at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.