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The Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH) has announced that Rob Okunnu [1] has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) stepping into the role from today (Monday, 17 October 2022). Rob takes over from Jo Revill, who leaves the College after over four successful years as...

On 28 September 2022, RCPCH hosted a meeting to address concerns regarding increased clinical pressures in UK Paediatric Emergency Departments ahead of winter and to share and discuss some potential solutions. Watch presentations from the meeting and an anonymised Q&A.

Dr Rosy Wells, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St Georges University Hospital, highlights the results of a survey set up to help the RCPCH Climate Change Working Group understand how paediatricians feel about climate change.

Today a group of RCPCH members cycled around London as part of Ride for Their Lives (RFTL) – a global campaign aiming to protect children from air pollution and the climate crisis.

Across the UK, child health inequalities are widening. They are avoidable and unfair. That is why almost 1,100 child health professionals signed open letters calling on political leaders across the UK to #ShiftTheDial on child health inequalities.

Health inequalities are the avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health outcomes between different groups of babies, children and young people. The drivers of health inequalities are the social, economic and environmental factors in which individuals live that have an impact on their heal...

On 8 September 2022, the climate change and health scorecard was published in the Journal of Climate and Health.

The implications of recent MPTS determinations have highlighted issues about system pressures and responsibilities of individual clinicians in their professional practice.