Care setting

Course

Point of Care Ultrasound – lung & lines, abdomen & heart (Hands on)

08 February 2025

Brighton

This Course will benefit Paediatric and Neonatal consultants & trainees and advanced nurse practitioners and researchers in the diagnostic use of ultrasound as per POCUS guidance. The Course aims to deliver the essential theoretical knowledge and practical experience with helpful tips relevant to PO...

Child and adolescent mortality

Emergency medicine

General paediatrics

Inherited metabolic medicine

Intensive care medicine

Document

NHS 10 year plan: A community shift that works for children - briefing

We call on all RCPCH members in England to input into the new 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS, both via the Change NHS Portal and through any Trust or regional opportunities. This is your opportunity to make the case for children and the child health workforce to be at the centre of plans for the NH...

News

RCPCH responds to Children’s Commissioner’s report on waiting times for neurodevelopmental conditions

18 October 2024

This report, using the Children’s Commissioner’s legislative powers, provides new insights into waiting times for children with neurodevelopmental conditions in community health and mental health services in England.

Course

Dermatology for Paediatricians 24th Annual Course

30 April 2025

This course will help delegates to develop an approach to the management of common paediatric skin disorders and how to recognise rare and complex conditions that require specialist referral. This course is delivered virtually via Zoom.

Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

13 December 2024

Nottingham

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. Feedback from previous DVAC courses has said the course has positively changed peoples’ practice. The course has previously run in Belfast an...

Intensive care medicine

Resource

Transforming child health services in England: a blueprint

Children are waiting longer than adults to access healthcare, paediatric services are not recovering at the same rates as adult services, and there is a growing gap between demand and capacity. This has coincided with an unprecedented increased demand for children’s health services, which is forecas...

Resource

Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - RCPCH Wales responds

In January 2024 we responded to the Senedd Children, Young People and Education Committee's inquiry into the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill. Our response was prepared in collaboration with the Welsh Institute for Physical Activity, Health and Sport (WIPAHS). WIPAHS is a pan-Wales, multi-...

Wellbeing for children and young people

News

Fresh beginnings or just another year...

22 January 2024

In his first blog of the year for RCPCH, Dr Nick Wilkinson, Officer for Wales, explores change, long-term health outcomes, political landscape and, of course, secret stashes of chocolates.

News

New tool for spotting deterioration in children released for roll out in England

3 November 2023

Paediatricians and other child health professionals based in England can now start transitioning towards using the new inpatient Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) chart which has been released by NHS England for use today.

News

RCPCH statement on Government response to Bill Kirkup report on East Kent

21 July 2023

On 20 July 2023, the Government published its full response to the independent review – led by former Regional Director of Public Health Dr Bill Kirkup CBE – into neonatal and maternity failings at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.