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Consultant

Course

How to Manage: Common Cardiac Problems (online)

22 January 2025

This is a one-day course focusing on cardiac problems frequently encountered by clinicians involved in the care of children.

Area of medicine

Cardiovascular

Volunteering opportunity

Examiners for MRCPCH and/or DCH

Medical professionals can apply to become an examiner for MRCPCH (membership exam) and DCH (Diploma of Child Health) clinical examinations. If you are interested in becoming an examiner for either exam, please see below.

Continuing professional development

Examinations

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Resource

Medication safety: Management of the supply of unlicensed liquid medicines to children - recommendations for implementation

NHS England tasked the RCPCH/NPPG Medicines Committee to improve the safety of liquid medicines during the transition from hospital to home care. This follows several serious incidents, including the death of a child due to confusion over liquid morphine strengths. Mistakes can occur because of t...

Drugs and medicines

Patient safety

News

Applications now open for BPSU's bursary to run a rare disease study

5 August 2024

We invite trainee paediatricians and newly qualified consultants to apply for the annual British Paediatric Surveillance Unit's Sir Peter Tizard bursary. The successful applicant receives a fully funded slot on the BPSU Orange Card and a stipend towards their training needs. The deadline is Monday 2...

Volunteering opportunity

START assessors and scenario generators - volunteering opportunities

Support the great work of this trainee assessment. We're looking for enthusiastic paediatric consultants and senior trainees to join our online sessions so we can generate new scenarios on varied clinical and professional themes. Consultants may become START assessors. Both are a great opportunity f...

Continuing professional development

Paediatric sub-specialty

Paediatric training

Course

How to Manage: Childhood Poverty (online)

12 February 2025

Poverty has a significant impact on communities across the country, with over 14 million people affected by poverty including 71% of working households and 42% of families with three or more children particularly affected. With increasing healthcare inequalities experienced by those living in povert...

Diabetes

Public health

Health inequalities

Wellbeing for children and young people

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Poverty

Volunteering opportunity

START Board: Vice Chair - volunteering opportunity

Closing date

6 January 2025

This Board oversees the scenario generations, development, delivery and quality assurance of our Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure. We are seeing a Vice Chair.

Paediatric training

Document

Whooping cough - poster and joint statement from RCPCH, RCOG, RCM and RCGP

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) issue this advice in a joint statement for worried parents and carers and healthcare professionals on...

Community child health

Document

Workforce information - Deep dive on consultant and SAS doctors, Spring 2024

We collate and analyse paediatric workforce and service information in the UK to support members, workforce planners and policy makers. In this first of our 'deep dives' into the data, we review the consultant and SAS doctors workforce, both in headcount and full time equivalent (FTE) working across...

Research

Workforce

Resource

Pregnancy and parenthood - guidance for doctors

This page has a list of resources for trainees and all doctors in paediatrics to help manage their pregnancy, parenthood and their career.