Fellowships, awards and prizes

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College Medal

The College Medal is a unique award offered by the RCPCH. This medal is given on an extraordinary basis to individuals within the world of child health and wellbeing, who may not be paediatricians nor work within the medical sphere.

Fellowships, awards and prizes

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Championing child health: workforce, wellbeing and equal protection - President's update

20 October 2025

In this update, Steve explains why the 10-year workforce plan consultation needs you, celebrates our research award winners and reminds us to protect ourselves and our patients with the flu vaccination. He ends by outlining our call to end physical punishment of young people.

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Denney Award

This award is presented to an outstanding medically-qualified research worker for the best article related to paediatric rare disease research. Applications for the 2026 Denney Award closed on 19 December 2025 and the winner will be announced in May 2026. The next round of applications will open...

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Rare disease

Fellowships, awards and prizes

Research

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Announcing the 2025 Honorary Fellows

7 May 2025

Honorary Fellowship is awarded to a small number of people who are considered by our members to have made a major contribution to paediatrics and child health through research, education, clinical service and leadership.

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Announcing the winners of the RCPCH Members' Award 2025

6 May 2025

Our Members' Award honours members who have undertaken exceptional work in support of child health and the College strategies. We are pleased to announce that Professor Bob Phillips and Professor George du Toit are the 2025 winners.

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National Clinical Impact Awards (NCIA) for Paediatrics 2025 are open for applications

1 April 2025

We are excited to announce that applications for the National Clinical Impact Awards (NCIA) opened today, 1 April 2025. While the College cannot provide members with citations, we warmly encourage you to consider submitting an application - deadline is 27 May 2025, 17:00.

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Announcing the 2025 winners of the national Paediatric Awards For Training Achievements

26 March 2025

We are delighted to present three fantastic winners of the national PAFTA, recognising the very best in paediatric training: Dr Kelly Boxall, Junior Trainee; Dr Magdalene Hover, Senior Trainee; and Dr Jo Walsh, Educational Supervisor.

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A busy week in the child health world - President's update

3 February 2025

Steve covers lots of topics this week, including applications to ST1, mental health services and data from the new RSV vaccine. He also introduces our Air Pollution Companion and shares recent policy work from the devolved nations.

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Williams Syndrome Cooper Bursary

This bursary from RCPCH and Williams Syndrome Foundation recognises the best scientific paper related to paediatric learning disability that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal by an outstanding medically qualified research worker. Applications for the 2026 William Syndrome Cooper Bursa...

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Learning disability or learning difficulty

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Research

RCPCH Conference

Committee

Recognition and Citations Committee

The Recognition and Citations Committee was created to publicise, monitor and assess nominations for some of the awards given by the College.