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RCPCH-NIHR PIER Award

The RCPCH-NIHR PIER (Paediatric Involvement and Engagement in Research) Award recognises significant contributions to excellent patient engagement for NIHR Clinical Research Network Portfolio studies. Nominations for the 2025 PIER Award closed on 9 December 2024 and the winner will be announced i...

Fellowships, awards and prizes

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A movement for child health: where next?

11 February 2019

The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign – our “Two years on scorecards” – puts the need for progress on key child health issues front and centre of the political agenda across all nations in the UK. We want to make sure we keep up momentum and make children a political priority, ...

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Vice President election 2019 results announced

29 January 2019

The RCPCH is pleased to announce the results of the recent Vice Presidential elections. Dr Simon Clark has been elected Vice President for Health Policy and Professor Nick Bishop has been elected Vice President for Science and Research. They will take up their posts on 6 March 2019.

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Hidden health - a parent-led card and toolkit

Parents from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital worked with RCPCH &Us to look at three elements of being “hidden”: children and young people with a hidden condition or illness; hidden family carers providing support; hidden support services such as forums. Their toolkit helps raise awareness of condition...

Mental health

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Children and young people's voice

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Patient experience

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Scoring change in 2019

25 January 2019

Its only 25 days into the New Year (happy new year by the way) and it feels like 25 months have passed. We’ve seen the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan (England), launched our own screen time guidance and hosted a roundtable with three CMOs on social media use, launched our State of Child Health 201...

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State of Child Health &Us 2019: Views from the RCPCH &Us network

We are proud to share voices from the RCPCH &Us network as part of the State of Child Health two years on reports.

Health policy

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Children and young people's voice

Wellbeing for children and young people

LGBTQ+

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Epilepsy12 &Us - voices from the RCPCH &Us network

Children and young people told us about their experiences of epilepsy care in our "clinic chats" - how they want to get in touch with services, the kind of support they want to receive, their best experiences and their ideas for the future. We worked with our Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates to produce a ...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

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What do young people want in the NHS Long Term Plan?

Over 300 young people took part in workshops, events and activities to share their views on what would support their health and that of children and young people over the next 10 years. The full report from the consultation activity was shared with NHS England as part of the consultation in preparat...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Society

NHS plan

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Scotland eBulletin - October 2018

12 November 2018

Steve Turner, Officer for Scotland, introduces this month's newsletter for our members in Scotland. Get caught up with the latest news...

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Please write to me: new guidance for doctors

4 September 2018

Writing directly to patients and their families or carers, rather than to General Practitioners, can help the patient-doctor relationship and improve patients' understanding of their condition. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has created this new guidance for doctors.