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Thrive Paediatrics

This RCPCH programme aims to improve your working lives as paediatricians. Our pilot phase was funded by Dinwoodie Charitable Company; we published a roadmap to start identifying both good practice and areas for change and we ran pilot 'Wellbeing and Innovation Networks'. If you're a member, make sure to explore the Thrive resource hub on RCPCH Learning.
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Thrive resource hub

Hosted on RCPCH Learning, this has evidence, good practice examples and stories from paediatricians' lived experience. We all learn differently and so you'll find tools in different formats, from articles to books, from podcasts to videos.
Resource hub on RCPCH Learning
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Thrive Roadmap

The RCPCH Roadmap for Transforming the Working Lives of Paediatricians provides a framework to find areas of good practice and highlight things that can be improved. Its three main sections are: working lives; professional development; and wellbeing and culture.
Roadmap
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WINs

Our pilot included 'Wellbeing and Innovation Networks' in two regions. Inclusive and diverse, these offered a space for members to draw on each other's experiences and collaborate to act.
WINs

"A vision of how things could be - and should be" - Dr Jonathan Darling, RCPCH VP for Education and Training

"The NHS currently feels like a difficult place. The cost-of-living crisis, widespread industrial action and the impact of COVID-19 have all added to a system already stretched by rota gaps and capacity issues. So, to talk about thriving in our paediatric careers risks accusations of being divorced from reality, of pointless dreaming.

"But in our Thrive Paediatrics work, we venture to suggest that there is a place for a dreaming, for a vision of how things could be - and should be.

"Change will not happen simply through painting such a picture. But it is surely more likely to happen if together we develop and share that vision, and feel empowered to reach for it."

Past blogs from Thrive Paediatrics

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Blog
24 September 2024

From surviving to thriving

Dinwoodie RCPCH Fellow, Dr Jess Morgan, wants to empower us to take small actions that influence the wellbeing and working lives of our colleagues.
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Blog
25 June 2024

The first step to building belonging: connection

This month, in the first of a series of three blogs, Thrive Fellow Dr Jess Morgan reflects on how connection can bring us closer together and help build a sense of belonging within teams.
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Blog
28 May 2024

Talking about civility and kindness

This month, Dr Jess Morgan, Dinwoodie RCPCH Fellow, explores how the Thrive team has been raising the profile of civility and reflects on what this means for you.