Secondary care

Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

23 March 2026

Nottingham

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. Feedback from previous DVAC courses has said the course has positively changed peoples’ practice. The course has previously run in Belfast an...

Anaesthesia

Emergency medicine

General paediatrics

Intensive care medicine

Course

Dermatology for Paediatricians: 25th annual course

22 April 2026

This course will help delegates to develop an approach to the management of common paediatric skin disorders and how to recognise rare and complex conditions that require specialist referral

Course

Neonatal Cardiology including POCUS (Remote Delivered)

14 January 2026

This is a Basic Plus Online Course that will benefit neonatal consultants & trainees, paediatricians with neonatal interest and critical care doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, and researchers who have commenced or intend to commence performing echocardiograms on neonates. The Course aims to ...

Inherited metabolic medicine

Intensive care medicine

Course

Point of Care Ultrasound – lung & lines, abdomen & heart (Hands on)

21 February 2026

Brighton

This Course will benefit Paediatric and Neonatal consultants & trainees, and advanced nurse practitioners, and researchers in the diagnostic use of ultrasound as per POCUS guidance. The Course aims to deliver the essential theoretical knowledge and practical experience with helpful tips relevant to ...

Intensive care medicine

News

Collaboration or integration - from our St David's Day Conference

24 March 2025

This excellent event took place last month, curated by our trainee members. Through a series of presentations, we looked at how integrated care can help address complexity and bring efficiency, but also how to link in with others' expertise and perspective.

News

RCPCH responds to Care Quality Commission State of Care Report

25 October 2024

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) State of Care report is its annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England. Today’s report (25 October) outlines major challenges for children’s health and wellbeing across several key areas that the College has itself repeatedly highlighted.

Resource

Transforming child health services in England: a blueprint

Children are waiting longer than adults to access healthcare, paediatric services are not recovering at the same rates as adult services, and there is a growing gap between demand and capacity. This has coincided with an unprecedented increased demand for children’s health services, which is forecas...

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Invited Reviews Service - how a review can help and our processes

The RCPCH Invited Reviews Service delivers clinically-led expert reviews to healthcare organisations when they need independent, objective expert advice and external assurance on the clinical services and quality of care they provide. We aim to provide a safe space for active listening. We suppo...

Paediatric sub-specialty

Quality improvement

Service design

Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services

Facing the Future - emergency care

Integrated care

Invited reviews

Measurement and performance

Models of care

Service planning

Resource

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.

Resource

Meeting the mental health needs of children and young people in acute hospitals: these patients are all our patients

The pandemic has exacerbated already existing pressures on services caring for children and young people presenting with mental ill health. Regardless of where children and young people present to care or what their specific health needs are, we must work together to ensure they receive the highest ...