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Delivering the Blue Bag - Ride for Their Lives to Glasgow

15 June 2023

For RCPCH Conference 2023, a group of members took part in a Ride for Their Lives cycle from Falkirk to Glasgow. To mark Clean Air Day 2023 today, Chinthika Piyasena chats about the Ride for Their Lives campaign and the meaning behind The Blue Bag.

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Get involved with Ride for Their Lives

Use your unique voice as a paediatrician and healthcare professional to raise awareness about the impact of climate change and air pollution on child health through the Ride for Their Lives campaign.

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Scottish children’s doctors call for an outright ban on disposable e-cigarettes

RCPCH is urging the Scottish Government to implement an outright ban on disposable e-cigarette products due to their disproportionate use among children and young people and their detrimental impact on the environment.

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Children’s doctors call for an outright ban on disposable e-cigarettes

6 June 2023

Disposable e-cigarette products such as Elf bars, Geek bars and Lost Marys are now the top choice for children and young people.

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Climate change - what can child health professionals do and how is it relevant to the healthcare setting?

20 April 2023

As this year’s RCPCH Conference gets ever closer, keynote speaker Dr Maria Neira, Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization, gives us a preview of what she will be taking to the main stage to discuss.

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Our voices: young people and climate change

6 March 2023

This podcast is created by young volunteers with RCPCH &Us and is all about climate change with some international guests from Ghana and others closer to home from the RCPCH Climate Change Working Group and RCPCH members.

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Making the NHS more sustainable - let us know about your projects

6 March 2023

Are you involved in a project or initiative in your local area that is working to make the NHS more sustainable? If so, we want to hear from you.

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RCPCH &Us Climate Changers

We are a group of young people with an interest in climate change who meet regularly to turn ideas into action. Find out how this project gives children and young people across the UK the chance to tell us what they think about climate change and how we share that insight with doctors.

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Supporting personal choice – President’s blog

17 February 2023

Camilla's thoughts are with junior doctors and trainees this week, as they consider the BMA ballot. She also shares our call to support #EllasLaw and ask MPs to take action on clean air.

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RCPCH launches action in support of the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill

15 February 2023

15 February 2023 marks the 10-year anniversary of the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah. Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death. Since her death, Ella’s mother Rosamund has campaigned tirelessly for clean air to become a human right.