Patient information

Part of our series to help trainees understand and achieve a domain in RCPCH Progress curriculum, these resources look at how to recognise and optimise everyday opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent illness.

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.

The start of the new school year can be particularly stressful. In a new blog for parents, Dr Max Davie, Officer for Health Promotion at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, shares his advice on how to keep children healthy, mentally as well as physically, as they prepare to head throu...

The BPSU is committed to ensuring that patient and public involvement (PPI) is embedded in its work in every way possible. The unit works with investigators to encourage and support public and patient involvement in their research. The information provided here is designed to support, not replac...

This online resource for families covering a range of kidney conditions, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and management. Parents and carers can access content as and when they need it - to read online or download as leaflets.

Medicines for Children (MfC) provides practical and reliable information to parents and carers about giving medicines to their child.