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Professor Viner comments on the discussions around schools and COVID
30 December 2020
Our President shares our perspective on the difficult debate around reopening schools.
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Paediatricians warn parents to be alert to signs of eating disorders over holidays
28 December 2020
Paediatricians have seen a huge rise in cases of anorexia nervosa and other food restriction disorders in this age group, with some reporting a doubling, tripling or even quadrupling of cases compared with the same period last year.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ publishes advice to help young people during the pandemic
18 December 2020
Paediatricians, GPs and psychiatrists have joined forces to produce guidance for young people who are worried about their health.
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Updated guidance on valproate use in women and girls of childbearing years is published
14 December 2020
This guidance, updated in December 2020 and endorsed by Â鶹´«Ã½, has been produced to inform all healthcare professionals of best practice around the use and prescribing of valproate. It supports them to navigate situations that could arise as a result of prescribing valproate to women during childbea...
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Submission to the United Nations on children's rights
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN Committee) will be assessing how well the UK is implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 2022. As part of the process, Â鶹´«Ã½ members, children and young people have supported the submission sharing ar...
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to GMC report on medical education
27 November 2020
We respond to 'The state of medical education and practice in the UK', the flagship annual report from the General Medical Council (GMC).
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to EHRC report on children's rights
20 November 2020
Â鶹´«Ã½ President Professor Russell Viner responds to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's report, Children's Rights in Great Britain, published on World Children's Day.
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UK CMOs, Academy and GMC issue joint statement to support doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave
11 November 2020
The Chief Medical Officers of all four UK nations, NHS England and NHS Improvement, General Medical Council and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have today issued a statement to recognise that the peak of pressure from coronavirus infections will again require temporary changes to practice, and not...
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Rights to access healthcare for migrant and/or undocumented children
This guidance highlights the barriers that currently exist for certain migrant and/or undocumented children with regards to access to healthcare and attainment of a healthy life. This is in the context of recent increase in efforts to charge certain migrant and/or undocumented groups using NHS servi...
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Â鶹´«Ã½ joins new alliance on health inequalities
26 October 2020
Â鶹´«Ã½ is a founding member of a new coalition of nearly 80 organisations, brought together by the Royal College of Physicians. Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA) has been launched today to press for urgent action to address health inequalities.