Our free website presents child health professionals' QI projects and posters in medicines, safety, patient-centred care and systems of care - plus updates and events.
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Membership
Milestones magazineYoung people are at the forefront of this special RCPCH &Us edition - as they interview paediatricians about their jobs, meet the Milestones editorial team and tell us about their projects.
Become a memberWe have varied membership types - for medical students and foundation doctors, new trainees and post-MRCPCH doctors, affiliated child health professionals and retired paediatricians. Our questionnaire helps find the best type for you! -
Education and careers
Progress+ is coming soonLive from this summer, Progress+ builds on the current curriculum, and will be flexible and fulfilling. Our FAQs, resources and updates outline what to expect. -
Work we do
Our clinical auditsOur audits aim to improve care and health outcomes for babies, children and young people. They cover neonatal medicine, epilepsy, diabetes, child protection services and PGHAN. -
Resources
Workforce pressures this winterWe continue to call on national governments to support paediatrics and child health - including fully costed, evidence-based strategies on workforce and health inequalities.
How can you increase patient engagement?We deliver guidance on how to involve children and young people, and their families, in strategic decision making. -
Key topics
Climate changeChildren are among the most vulnerable to the health risks of climate change. We’re looking at what we can all do to help combat climate change for the future benefit of children and young people.
GenomicsIt has the potential to change our approaches to healthcare. Our ambitious new programme aims to address unmet need across the sector, in order to improve the health of children and young people. -
News and events
RCPCH Conference 2023 abstractsShare your project work, get constructive feedback and promote yourself, team and institution. The deadline is Monday, 6 February.
Podcast on health inequalitiesChildren living in poverty are more likely to experience poorer health outcomes. Three paediatricians talk about how to open up conversations with families about poverty.
Our Child Protection Portal helps inform clinical practice, child protection procedures and professional and expert opinion in the legal system. The invaluable 'Companion' is available for members and subscribers.
Our free website provides free, practical and reliable information for parents and carers about giving medicines to their child.
Our audits aim to improve care and health outcomes for babies, children and young people. They include audits of clinical care, which are commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership as well as audits of service standards, run in collaboration with affiliated specialty groups.
The IRS offers healthcare organisations an opportunity to adopt a proactive approach in seeking assurances on care provided, address areas of concern and identify scope for quality improvement from a team of independent, expert peer reviewers.
We deliver 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.
We deliver 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.
How we're building a culture of continuous improvement
Patient safety is everyone's business
We support, educate and develop paediatricians, and the wider child health workforce and services, to deliver high quality safe care for infants, children and young people.