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Northern Ireland

Members working in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are represented at College Council by the Officer for Ireland - find out useful contacts and activity on your College region's web page

Volunteering opportunity

Trainee Committee: Regional Representatives

Closing date

21 September 2026

Represent your fellow trainees on topics like recruitment and retention, career development and EDI: we're recruiting for reps in East Midlands, West Midlands and Scotland. We also have trainee vacancies on our CSACs for community child health and inherited metabolic medicine.

Community child health

Inherited metabolic medicine

Paediatric training

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Workforce census: Focus on Northern Ireland (2019)

This report, published in December 2019, focuses on the Northern Ireland findings form the workforce census 2017, and makes five key Northern Ireland-specific recommendations.

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Safety-netting information following a first seizure without a fever in children and young people

These high quality leaflets provide information to parents and carers of children and young people who have had a first seizure that was not considered to be a ‘febrile convulsion’, as well as children and young people themselves.

Community child health

Engaging children and young people

Patient information

Patient safety

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�鶹��ý pensions survey - the impact of pension tax legislation on our UK members

Our survey of paediatric consultants in the UK highlights the damaging impact of pension related tax bills on clinicians, and the knock-on effect on services for children and young people. Our document describes the findings from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Workforce

Pensions

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Confirmation of pensions fix welcome news for members, says �鶹��ý

22 November 2019

Today it was confirmed by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS, that a short term solution to the pensions tax crisis has been agreed.

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Long term, sustainable solution needed on pensions tax, says �鶹��ý

20 November 2019

Ministers and NHS leaders have signed off on an interim plan to address the pensions tax issue affecting doctors who take on extra hours.

News

�鶹��ý responds to GMC report on wellbeing for doctors

15 November 2019

Today the General Medical Council (GMC) published ‘Caring for doctors, caring for patients’, which sets out an ambitious and welcome vision for a health service that supports doctors’ wellbeing and patient safety.

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - consultation response

In 2018 we responded to the visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK. Our submission focused on certain questions asked, including the extent of child poverty in the UK and how its evolved, the implications and whether government response has been effective.

Public health

Health inequalities

Poverty

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Shortage of consultant paediatricians - report (2019)

We use expert-agreed standards to determine how many consultant paediatricians the UK needs to deliver safe and quality care. We estimate that we need an additional 856 whole time equivalent consultants.

Service design

Workforce

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Winter pressures clinic in the ED - case study

Dr Stephen Mullen, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, describes an initiative to introduce a Winter Pressures clinic in the Emergency Department.

Service design

Service planning

Winter planning