Public health

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RCPCH responds to the GMC’s national training survey - 2022

19 July 2022

The General Medical Council’s annual national training survey reveals a continuing worsening trend in answers to questions about workload and burnout.

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Reducing health inequalities: We are looking to hear about your projects

15 July 2022

Are you involved in a project or initiative in your local area that is working to tackle health inequalities in the UK? If so, we want to hear from you.

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RCPCH responds to Welsh report, ‘Mind the gap: what’s stopping change?’

15 July 2022

The Welsh NHS Confederation Health and Wellbeing Alliance has published a comprehensive report ‘Mind the gap: what’s stopping change?’, on why the current cost of living crisis is a health crisis and the health impact of growing inequalities across Wales.

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RCPCH responds to latest statistics on child poverty

12 July 2022

On 12 July 2022, the End Child Poverty Coalition, a coalition of charities of which RCPCH is a member, published statistics outlining rates of child poverty across the UK.

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Advocating on climate change and air pollution - President's blog

20 June 2022

Camilla reflects on a busy week advocating for children within the Greener NHS and sustainability panel discussion at NHSConfed Expo. She also flags a couple of opportunities for members to share views on air pollution and the current cost of living crisis.

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Paediatricians call on government to take action as children’s waiting lists soar to 350,000 for the first time

16 June 2022

NHS England published referral to treatment waiting times for April 2022 on 16 June 2022. For the first time, we have a full year of consultant-led paediatric waiting lists data.

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For the first time all NHS trusts have a net zero strategy

16 June 2022

On Clean Air Day – 16th June 2022 – NHS England announced for the first time all 212 trusts have strategic plans in place to reach net zero.

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RCPCH responds to “Government food strategy” policy paper

14 June 2022

On 13 June 2022, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published an updated food strategy.

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Transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists - consultation response

In June 2022 we responded to the Health & Social Care Committee’s request for evidence on the Welsh Government Plan to Transform Planned Care and Reduce Waiting Lists.

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RCPCH responds to ‘Making smoking obsolete’, an independent review into smokefree 2030 policies

10 June 2022

On 9th June 2022, an independent report titled “Making smoking obsolete” was published making recommendations to the UK government to reach its objective for England to be smokefree by 2030.