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A movement for child health: where next?

11 February 2019

The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign – our “Two years on scorecards” – puts the need for progress on key child health issues front and centre of the political agenda across all nations in the UK. We want to make sure we keep up momentum and make children a political priority, ...

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�鶹��ý responds to social media and screen time guidance from Chief Medical Officers

7 February 2019

The UK's Chief Medical Officers have issued guidance on children and young people's use of social media and screen time.

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Time to Talk- Supporting children and young people with mental health

6 February 2019

There has been a lot in the media about mental health recently, with the government promising that mental health will be a key focus of the NHS Long Term Plan. But we know that lots of parents will still have niggling questions. Dr Lee Hudson, Mental Health Lead at the Royal College of Paediatrics a...

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Toxic air harming children across 86% of UK

5 February 2019

Unicef has launched a campaign that aims to protect children and young people from the UK's toxic air.

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Significant gaps in the workforce - findings from our census

1 February 2019

This week we released our key workforce report, which uses �鶹��ý census data to formulate essential workforce policy recommendations. The paediatric workforce must be prioritised in workforce planning to improve child health outcomes in the UK.

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Supporting treatment and appropriate medication in paediatrics - our pledge

1 February 2019

We have worked with NHS England on a programme to ensure children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both are able to access appropriate medication, and are not prescribed inappropriate psychotropic medication. Find out more and read our full pledge.

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�鶹��ý responds to impact of social media and screen-use report

31 January 2019

Today, the Science and Technology Committee releases its latest report, Impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health. Dr Max Davie, �鶹��ý Officer for Health Promotion, responds.

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Vice President election 2019 results announced

29 January 2019

The �鶹��ý is pleased to announce the results of the recent Vice Presidential elections. Dr Simon Clark has been elected Vice President for Health Policy and Professor Nick Bishop has been elected Vice President for Science and Research. They will take up their posts on 6 March 2019.

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Scoring change in 2019

25 January 2019

Its only 25 days into the New Year (happy new year by the way) and it feels like 25 months have passed. We’ve seen the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan (England), launched our own screen time guidance and hosted a roundtable with three CMOs on social media use, launched our State of Child Health 201...

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Child health high on the agenda, but political uncertainty and public health cuts pose risk to progress, warns �鶹��ý President

23 January 2019

The �鶹��ý has published State of Child Health: Two Years On, which highlights progress made against the policy recommendations in our landmark State of Child Health 2017 report.