Thank you for being a valued member of RCPCH's community of 25,000 child health professionals. You can see our fees for each membership type for the 2026 calendar year, plus how to apply for a concession, access your benefits and use your online account.
We have some wonderful roles available, including our VPs for Training & Assessment and Education & Learning, Officers in England, Scotland and Wales, Officers for Training & Quality and Education, plus many others.
We are reviewing the programme of assessment for doctors in postgraduate paediatric training, to ensure that the assessments taken in the workplace and our examinations are fair, fit for purpose and sustainable.
We have updated our national recommendations on the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections, to use in partnership with your local infection prevention control team.
An Initial Health Assessment is a statutory appointment for every child or young person entering care in the UK. Guided by eight child-led outcomes, our standards aim to improve their health and wellbeing.
These services provide vital support to some of our most vulnerable children and their families, yet waiting times have worsened over the past three years across the UK. We continue to call for a stronger focus on collaborative healthcare.
Children and young people have the right to be actively involved in decisions about their health services. How can you develop and deliver meaningful opportunities for engagement?
Leadership is not about hierarchy: it’s about connection, contribution and culture. Jonathan speaks with RCPCH President Steve Turner on our latest episode.
Hosted by RCPCH Wales in partnership with trainees from across the nation, this day-long event takes place on 26 February in Cardiff, with a special focus on digital innovation.
This report, published in May 2019, focuses on the findings about Specialty, Associate Specialist and Staff (SAS) grade doctors from the workforce census 2017, and makes four key recommendations for employers and workforce planners to support this group.
This report, published in March 2019, focuses on the Scotland findings from the workforce census 2017, and makes four key Scotland-specific recommendations.
The child health workforce across the UK is suffering from the same planning problems, underfunding and staffing issues as the rest of the health workforce. In this first report of the series we provide a UK-wide overview of the findings from the most recent census, and make five key recommendations...
This briefing document reveals that patient demand is strongly outstripping the supply of doctors as the usual seasonal increase combined with a rise in children’s emergency admissions is placing unprecedented demand on services. It highlights some of the key findings from the College's Workforce ce...
This was the ninth biennial census produced by the RCPCH since 1999. It provided a snapshot of how trained and trainee paediatricians were working on 30 September 2015, and the structure of child health services in the UK.
Two reports set out key findings from the 2015 RCPCH workforce census and make recommendations for actions to improve the workforce. They are part of our State of Child Health short report series.