'Twas the Milestones before Christmas... The winter edition of your member magazine is now out, with contributions on supporting professional activities, our rota gaps survey, service development and so much more.
Applications are now open until 6 January for a host of roles, many of which support paediatric training - including to represent your fellow trainees, develop scenarios for our START assessment and review Portfolio Pathway applications.
We offer a range of courses, including our popular 'How to manage' series on clinical topics, plus safeguarding, effective educational supervision and exam preparation. Many are hosted online.
Covering the next three years and with four strategic goals, our strategy aims to meet our members' priorities to support their working lives and be a powerful advocate for children and young people.
We want to ensure children and young people are at the centre of the Government's plan. Our briefings outline our recommendations and how members in England can input.
Our Companion, developed with members, helps you build your knowledge, talk to patients and advocate for change - such as joining a clean air community in the UK or internationally.
As RCPCH President, Steve shares regular updates with members by email and on this website - such as his regular feature on #WDYCD4Y: What Does Your College Do For You.
Our major event of the year takes place from 26 to 28 March in Glasgow and online, and you don't want to miss it! Get your early bird ticket now for 15% off.
We surveyed members across the UK to understand more about understaffed rotas and how to address them for both a high quality service and clinician wellbeing.
William Harvey Research Foundation - Innovation Award [CLOSED]
Funds pioneering research聽that advances the discovery of new medicines.
Award programme/theme
Innovation award
Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine - Research Prize [CLOSED]
These awards are aimed at researchers in the early years of running their own groups, for whom receipt of the prize would make a significant difference to their research work. The Institute accepts applications from tenured and non-tenured researchers, clinicians and non-clinicians to undertake high quality biomedical research and has no priority diseases or restrictions on the research area supported.
A paper published in the Lancet finds that, for teenage girls, almost all of the effect of very frequent social media use on聽wellbeing was due to increased exposure to bullying and reduced sleep and physical exercise. Meanwhile, for teenage聽boys, the impact on wellbeing appears to be due to other in...
RCPCH President responds to latest National Maternity and Perinatal Audit and says whilst the expansion of perinatal mental health support is particularly welcome, support services are under immense pressure. He urges an immediate moratorium on any further cuts so "pregnant women and their children ...
The measure forms part of a range of recommendations made by RCPCH as part of our ambitious 鈥淧revention Vision鈥. The amount of free sugar in baby food should be reduced and the Government should place a 鈥渕oratorium鈥 on public health funding cuts, according to bold recommendations outlined today by l...
For the first time, the College has developed an audit toolkit to support Emergency Departments treating children to monitor how well they are meeting the 70 鈥淔acing the Future鈥 standards. Dr John Criddle and Dr Virginia Davies discuss the development of the toolkit and its impact for children in me...
In 2018 we responded to the Department of Health & Social Care鈥檚 consultation on their draft guidance for reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention for children with learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and mental health needs. We welcome the aim to eliminate the inappr...
We responded to the Department for Education in 2017 with recommendations that child health professionals be included in the assessment process to determine whether a child is the victim of modern slavery and human trafficking. Government must allocate more financial resource in order for Local Auth...
For the final chapter in the "fetal life to adulthood" series devised by Dr Abby Parish, ST6 trainee at Swansea's Singleton Hospital, this year's conference looked at mental health and wellbeing. Here Abby reflects on another successful event before she leaves her position as our Wales Trainee Repre...
NHS England has published a Clinical Review of NHS Access Standards. It contains proposals to speed up access to mental health services as well as revised measures for treatment in A&E.
