Emergency medicine

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

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

Course

Neonatal cardiology including POCUS - online course

08 January 2025

This is a Basic Plus remote-delivered course that will benefit neonatal consultants & trainees, paediatricians with neonatal interest and critical care doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, and researchers who have commenced or intend to commence performing echocardiograms on neonates. The cours...

Academic medicine

Anaesthesia

Cardiovascular

Child and adolescent mortality

Emergency medicine

General paediatrics

Inherited metabolic medicine

Intensive care medicine

Neonatal medicine

Course

Neonatal and paediatric ECG and arrhythmia - online course

29 January 2025

This is a basic plus course that will upskill clinicians and allied health professionals in neonatal and paediatric ECG interpretation and relevant management. This course is delivered remotely.

Intensive care medicine

Neonatal medicine

Basic page

Paediatric emergency medicine - sub-specialty

This is a sub-specialty of both paediatrics and emergency medicine and seeks to provide highly specialised acute health care to children and young people. This page is for those exploring, applying to or already in this sub-specialty training programme! We have insights from current specialists o...

Emergency medicine

Paediatric sub-specialty

News

RCPCH contributes to urgent and emergency care report

21 November 2023

The report, Right Place, Right Care: Learning the Lessons from the UK Crisis in Urgent and Emergency Care in 2022, was published by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) provides cases studies and analysis of last year’s crisis in Emergency Care.

News

Introducing the RCPCH Wales Deputies

15 November 2023

How can we help ensure children and young people are at the centre of policy making in Wales? Dr Nick Wilkinson, Officer for Wales, notes the need draw on others' expertise... And so he announces our recently appointed RCPCH Wales Deputy Officers and Health Board Integration Lead.

News

Group A strep - reinstatement of NICE sore throat guidance

17 February 2023

Interim guidance from NHS England has been stepped down, and clinicians are advised to use NICE guidance for sore throat.

News

NHS England’s Plan to Recover Urgent and Emergency Care Services

30 January 2023

The NHS and UK Government have published a new two-year delivery plan today to help recover urgent and emergency care services, reduce waiting times, and improve patient experience.

Resource

Winter pressures and Paediatric Emergency Medicine – sharing solutions and best practice: meeting recording

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.

Area of medicine

Emergency medicine

Winter planning