Emergency medicine

News

Introducing the RCPCH Wales Deputies

15 November 2023

How can we help ensure children and young people are at the centre of policy making in Wales? Dr Nick Wilkinson, Officer for Wales, notes the need draw on others' expertise... And so he announces our recently appointed RCPCH Wales Deputy Officers and Health Board Integration Lead.

Course

How to Manage: Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children and Young People (Online)

05 June 2024

This course aims to increase awareness, knowledge, skills and confidence to assess and manage the health needs of accompanied and unaccompanied refugee and asylum-seeking children (AURASC) across medical settings.

Area of medicine

Community child health

Volunteering opportunity

Health services and standards - volunteering opportunities

Closing date

11 December 2023

Our Health Services committee shares good practice and influences national developments in the design and delivery of paediatric health services, and is seeking a Northern Ireland rep. The Interercollegiate Committee on Emergency Care Standards for CYP provides expert advice, and is recruiting a Wal...

Emergency medicine

Service design

Service planning

News

Group A strep - reinstatement of NICE sore throat guidance

17 February 2023

Interim guidance from NHS England has been stepped down, and clinicians are advised to use NICE guidance for sore throat.

Resource

Winter pressures and Paediatric Emergency Medicine – sharing solutions and best practice: meeting recording

On 28 September 2022, RCPCH hosted a meeting to address concerns regarding increased clinical pressures in UK Paediatric Emergency Departments ahead of winter and to share and discuss some potential solutions. Watch presentations from the meeting and an anonymised Q&A.

Area of medicine

Emergency medicine

Winter planning

News

RCPCH publishes summary analysis of data collected on the standards of emergency care for children and young people

6 September 2022

RCPCH has published a summary analysis that offers a view of the standard of emergency care for children and young people in the two years before the start of the pandemic.

News

My mental garden maintenance

30 August 2022

Dr Jo Hacking looks back at her career in paediatric emergency medicine and offers her top three tips for self care. "What we need to realise is that self-care in itself is a compassionate act. Kindness is not just something we give out to others. We deserve to receive it too, but from ourselves fir...

Resource

Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland- consultation response

RCPCH welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland consultation in June 2022. This sets out the proposed strategic priorities in response to the Urgent and Emergency Care Review Report, which initially launched in ...

Facing the Future - emergency care

Models of care

Service planning

Document

Facing the Future: Standards for children and young people in emergency care settings - audit findings

This is a summary of audit findings reported by 91 emergency departments from 2018 to early 2020, based on our Facing the Future standards in emergency care settings, which were published in 2018. These audit findings provide an insight into how emergency care settings were delivering services a...

Emergency medicine

Emergency Department

Service design

Facing the Future - emergency care

Workforce

Document

Administration of rectal diazepam to neonates and infants to treat seizures prior to hospital admission - position statement

This guidance is for ambulance services which need to administer diazepam, a medicine for treating seizures, to neonates and infants. It explains how to accurately administer a 1.25mg or 2.5mg dose directly from a 5mg rectal tube. Buccal midazolam is usually preferred to rectal diazepam in the ho...