General paediatrics

A general paediatrician is a doctor with the knowledge and skills to manage a wide range of health problems and concerns in children and young people. Find out more about general paediatrics.

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RCPCH responds to healthy school food move

13 June 2019

Prof Steve Turner welcomes Scottish Government's decision to change nutritional standards in schools to include more fruit and vegetables and less processed red meat and sugar.

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RCPCH EQIP - Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme

The RCPCH Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme was officially launched in June 2019 as the first paediatric epilepsy QI collaborative in England and Wales, supporting epilepsy service teams to identify sustainable improvements within their services for children and young people with epilepsy.

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Paediatric sepsis podcasts

28 May 2019

Listen to real-world advice and guidance on how to manage paediatric sepsis. Join Dr Emma Lim, Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Sepsis Lead, to discuss all things sepsis together with parents, paediatric specialists and junior doctors in this multi-episode podcast.

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RCPCH responds to latest MMR vaccine data

24 May 2019

Professor Helen Bedford says "England has not escaped the recent increase in cases", and urges parents to vaccinate their children to protect them from "a nasty disease which could result in life changing complications or even death".

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RCPCH responds to WHO physical activity guidelines

25 April 2019

New guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for children under 5 are “useful benchmarks” but require cautious interpretation, says RCPCH's Dr Max Davie.

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Thirteen UK healthcare bodies launch ‘pragmatic’ guidance on valproate use

29 March 2019

Experts from 13 national bodies, including seven Royal Colleges, have joined forces to launch new practical guidance to support doctors and other health professionals around valproate use in women and girls in their reproductive years.

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Vaccinations important and highly effective, says child health expert

27 March 2019

The RCPCH highly recommends vaccination and that anyone who has concerns or questions talk to their health visitor, practice nurse or general practitioner (GP).

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The use of unlicensed medicines or licensed medicines for unlicensed applications in paediatric practice

This statement, originally produced in 2000, was updated in 2013 by the Joint Standing Committee on Medicines, a committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group. The update reflects changes in European (including UK) law that aim to facil...

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Few multivitamins contain recommended dose of Vitamin D, reveals new study

25 February 2019

RCPCH responds to new study, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, which reveals of the multivitamins surveyed, doses ranged from 0 to 800 IU.

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