Public health

This course will develop your skills and knowledge in effectively managing general mental health problems encountered in day-to-day clinics and increase your confidence in selecting appropriate interventions to support patients and their families.

Get to know Harry Apperley in his first blog. He has joined RCPCH as the third Clean Air Clinical Fellow in the Clean Air Fund Partnership.

Paediatricians reiterate need for adequate workforce planning and funding for to tackle out of control waiting times for child health services.

Pulling it all together through the lens of our new strategy.

Dr Nick Wilkinson, Officer for Wales, explores - with a seasonal twist - the challenges surrounding hospital admissions during the festive season for both patients and practitioners.

Paediatricians welcome the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill but call for more focus including on equal protection from assault and child poverty.

The national database’s ‘Child deaths due to Asthma or Anaphylaxis’ report aims to identify trends in child mortality due to asthma and anaphylaxis, investigate factors associated with these deaths and identify common themes.

The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) has published a report summarising paediatric critical care activity within paediatric intensive care units (PICU) between 2021 and 2023.

The current state of children’s community health services is unsustainable, says Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) with new data showing children are waiting far longer than adults for care.

Today the UK Government has published six new milestones for change that will guide its work over the course of the parliament.