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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 �鶹��ý, 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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Dr Camilla Kingdon and Professor Steve Turner elected as incoming President and Registrar

11 December 2020

Dr Camilla Kingdon will be the next President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and will succeed Professor Russell Viner in spring 2021. Professor Steve Turner will be the next Registrar, taking over from Dr Mike Linney.

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Joint statement with the International Child Health Group (ICHG) on overseas aid

11 December 2020

We call on the government to keep its promise to the world’s poorest children to spend 0.7% of gross national income on foreign aid. The collateral impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is causing severe disruption to preventive and curative health services in the poorest settings, particularly for childr...

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�鶹��ý statement on the ruling in the judicial review, Bell v Tavistock

8 December 2020

We have carefully reviewed this court ruling, which addresses the consent of children and young people to the use of puberty suppressing drugs as part of the treatment of gender dysphoria. We consider that the ruling should not have implications for the general ethical or legal framework for childre...

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Royal Colleges 3.0: ‘Best practice as code’

8 December 2020

Dr Marcus Baw has spent the last few months working with �鶹��ý on a project to deliver a Digital Growth Charts web service. It’s been a hugely interesting project to help digitise the complex clinical logic of growth chart use into code. He explains more in this blog.

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Providing global services in a pandemic

4 December 2020

Our Head of International Operations, Sebastian Taylor, shares how �鶹��ý Global has been supporting our partners abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Reflections on time as Chair of Trainees Committee

30 November 2020

After two years in post, Hannah Jacob shares her highlights and how proud she is of what the Trainees' Committee has achieved.

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�鶹��ý 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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Young people win a national award for epilepsy quality improvement

27 November 2020

The Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates have been selected as joint winners in the HQIP Audit Heroes Awards 2020 in the Volunteer of the Year Category, recognising their hard work to support improvements in epilepsy care.

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Shaping our future working lives: what you told us

25 November 2020

In February 2020, we asked members to join us in a survey about the future of paediatrics in the UK to inform our Paediatrics 2040 project. Here, Dr Judith van der Voort, Chair of the project’s working lives group, discusses some of the themes that were shared.