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

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

Measurement and performance

Models of care

Service planning

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Progress+ implementation plan - what clinical directors need to know

The RCPCH paediatric curriculum, Progress+, will be implemented in August / September 2023. Our implementation document for clinical directors and leads summarises the key issues and opportunities for the delivery and organisation of training, including rota availability.

Service design

Service planning

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Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland- consultation response

RCPCH welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland consultation in June 2022. This sets out the proposed strategic priorities in response to the Urgent and Emergency Care Review Report, which initially launched in ...

Facing the Future - emergency care

Models of care

Service planning

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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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RCPCH responds to Nuffield Trust report on impact of the pandemic on children and young people

18 February 2022

The Nuffield Trust has published a report highlighting that children and young people are facing rapidly growing waiting times for health services on top of the disproportionate burden on their mental health brought on by the pandemic.

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Future Planning Model for Northern Ireland – Consultation response

The Department of Health have commenced a programme of work to develop a new Integrated Care System model to replace the existing commissioning processes in Northern Ireland (NI) once the regional Health and Social Care Board ceases to function. The consultation sought input on the associated draft ...

Health policy

Public health

Health inequalities

Wellbeing for children and young people

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Recipes for Rights - children and young people in the lead - RCPCH &Us

This booklet takes you through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the five articles that children and young people have told us are important to their healthcare. Recipes include; starter activities to break the ice; patient view finders for one-to-one work; and quality improvement act...

Participation

Children and young people voice

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UK CMOs, Academy and GMC issue joint statement to support doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave

11 November 2020

The Chief Medical Officers of all four UK nations, NHS England and NHS Improvement, General Medical Council and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have today issued a statement to recognise that the peak of pressure from coronavirus infections will again require temporary changes to practice, and not...

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Digital by default or digital divide? Virtual healthcare consultations with young people 10 – 25 years

One effect of COVID-19 has been the rise in remote consultations. This joint statement, developed in September 2020, outlines some of the issues that need to be considered when undertaking virtual consultations with young people.

News

Update from Officer for Scotland - September 2020

2 September 2020

Professor Steve Turner, RCPCH Officer for Scotland, addresses members working across Scotland. He explores the College's programme of work on winter pressures, shielding guidance, the regularly updated COVID-19 research evidence summaries and the new virtual clinical exams.