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Work we do

As well as our essential work in education and career support for paediatricians, our staff and members work on a range of programmes to improve child health - from quality improvement to workforce studies, from research in the UK to global child health programmes. Find out more and get involved.
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RCPCH &Us

Children and young people are the heart of everything we do. Through our RCPCH &Us programme, thousands of children, young people and family members engage in our events and activities, developing resources and providing insight.
About RCPCH &Us
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Workforce planning

We play a key role to help ensure there is an appropriately trained paediatric medical workforce to deliver safe and sustainable services for children in the UK - now and in the future. We're currently collecting crucial data in our workforce census 2022.
About workforce planning

Equality, diversity and inclusion

This is a fundamentally important process for us as a College. Together with our members, we're looking at the working lives of paediatricians, health outcomes for children and young people, College volunteering and awards.
About our EDI work

More of what we do

British Paediatric Surveillance Unit
Global child health
Invited reviews service
Public affairs
Quality improvement and patient safety, including our audits
Research activities
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Screening of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)

ROP is one of the few causes of childhood visual disability that is largely preventable. In collaboration with Royal College of Ophthalmologists and British Association of Perinatal Medicine, we've updated this evidence-based clinical guideline, along with parent and carer information.

Guideline

Key reports

State of Child Health - evidence on child health outcomes across the UK
Paediatrics 2040 - a vision for the future
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Tackling climate change - our action plan

Climate change action is now embedded as a priority in our 2021-24 College strategy and we have identified six ambitions to guide our activity.

We hope that through our work across the next three years we can put our strength of voice to good use.

Action plan