Children and young people's voice

Through the RCPCH &Us programme, we work with children, young people and families to improve child health.

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Rainbow Health Youth Supporters pack - LGBT+ health experiences

Young people from Central Bedfordshire Youth Voice worked with the RCPCH &Us team to explore Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) health experiences. Inspired by the NHS Rainbow Badge Initiative, the group contributed their views, ideas and recommendations for creating LGBT+ aware and acce...

Participation

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

Equality, diversity and inclusion

LGBTQ+

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Being me - supporting children and young people

What keeps children in care happy, healthy and well? Care-experienced children and young people worked with RCPCH &Us to create these free resources, including 'health and wellbeing passports', a poster and games to help share who they are, how they are feeling and what support they would like - as ...

Participation

Children and young people's voice

Looked after children

Document

RCPCH Progress+ domain resources: Safeguarding

The safety of all children is paramount and the divine factor of all areas in paediatrics. This domain requires the trainee to consider safeguarding as an essential element of all aspects of paediatric healthcare practice be that with children and young people, parents and carers, other care profess...

Paediatric training

Children and young people's voice

Patient experience

Safeguarding

Child protection

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RCPCH-NIHR PIER Award

The RCPCH-NIHR PIER (Paediatric Involvement and Engagement in Research) Award recognises significant contributions to excellent patient engagement for NIHR Clinical Research Network Portfolio studies. Nominations for the 2025 PIER Award closed on 9 December 2024 and the winner will be announced i...

Fellowships, awards and prizes

Participation

Children and young people's voice

Patient involvement

Research

Document

RCPCH Progress+ domain resources: Communication

Effective communication is a vital skill for any paediatrician, be that with colleagues, children and young people, parents and carers or other care professionals. This is one of a series of resources - developed with and by trainees, supervisors and children and young people - to support trainees i...

Paediatric training

Children and young people's voice

Patient experience

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Hidden health - a parent-led card and toolkit

Parents from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital worked with RCPCH &Us to look at three elements of being “hidden”: children and young people with a hidden condition or illness; hidden family carers providing support; hidden support services such as forums. Their toolkit helps raise awareness of condition...

Mental health

Participation

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

News

Scoring change in 2019

25 January 2019

Its only 25 days into the New Year (happy new year by the way) and it feels like 25 months have passed. We’ve seen the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan (England), launched our own screen time guidance and hosted a roundtable with three CMOs on social media use, launched our State of Child Health 201...

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State of Child Health &Us 2019: Views from the RCPCH &Us network

We are proud to share voices from the RCPCH &Us network as part of the State of Child Health two years on reports.

Health policy

Participation

Children and young people's voice

Wellbeing for children and young people

LGBTQ+

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Epilepsy12 &Us - voices from the RCPCH &Us network

Children and young people told us about their experiences of epilepsy care in our "clinic chats" - how they want to get in touch with services, the kind of support they want to receive, their best experiences and their ideas for the future. We worked with our Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates to produce a ...

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

Document

What do young people want in the NHS Long Term Plan?

Over 300 young people took part in workshops, events and activities to share their views on what would support their health and that of children and young people over the next 10 years. The full report from the consultation activity was shared with NHS England as part of the consultation in preparat...

Participation

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Society

NHS plan