Participation
Job vacancy
Engagement and Participation Youth Worker (Specialist)
Closing date
11 March 2019 09:00
The post holder will help to maintain the College’s commitment to safe, meaningful and ethical participation of children and young and people and their families within our work as key stakeholders to help improve paediatric care and child health.
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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 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 now being piloted
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 #HiddenHealth #ThisIsMe card and toolkit a...
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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
We are proud to share the latest voices from the RCPCH &Us network as part of the State of Child Health two years on reports.
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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 ...
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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...
Volunteering opportunity
What's your priority for child health? Share it with us!
We launched the next phase of our State of Child Health campaign on 23 January. Our members, political decision-makers and young people across the UK shared their priorities for child health on Twitter and at our events. There's still time to get involved and show that that #ChildHealthMatters!
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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...