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Fragmented approach to child health damaging long term health of nation, RCPCH warns

17 January 2018
Child health is suffering at the hands of a disjointed approach from central Government is the warning from the RCPCH as it publishes its “State of Child Health: One year on” scorecard today. The scorecards for England, Scotland and Wales describe progress against the series of recommendations made ...
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BPSU study - Nutritional rickets

Surveillance of nutritional rickets presenting to secondary care in children and young people concluded in March 2017. The study team hoped to ascertain the incidence of nutritional rickets and presentational features of the condition. The study group has now published its findings in the Archiv...
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Economic and Social Research Council - Various Funding Opportunities

The Economic and Social Research Council provide funding for social sciences research. This includes anything from a standard research project through to a large-scale survey or methodological development.
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Comic Relief - UK Main Grants [CLOSED]

Comic Relief primarily makes grants to create long-term change to help achieve a world where everyone is safe, healthy, educated and empowered.
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‘Worrying’ inequalities gap highlighted in children’s emergency healthcare

24 December 2017
School-aged children from the poorest areas are two and a half times more likely to be admitted to hospital in an emergency for asthma than their counterparts in the richest areas, and this gap has grown substantially in a decade, new research reveals today.