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We use our members' expertise and experience to promote child health and inform our responses to current news.

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Advocating for child health, now and in the future

26 July 2022

This is the first of our “In conversation…” series discussing the four aims of our College Strategy 2021-24. Dr Mike McKean, our VP for Health Policy speaks with Robert Okunnu, Director for Membership, Policy & External Affairs on the College’s health policy priorities.

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Dr Emma Dyer elected as Chair of the Trainees’ Committee

25 July 2022

Dr Emma Dyer will be the next Chair of the Trainees’ Oversight Committee at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and will succeed Dr Laura Kelly.

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�鶹��ý responds to the Northern Ireland Assembly recall

21 July 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be recalled on 26 July.

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Joint statement from medical royal colleges and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Conservative leadership contest

21 July 2022

Medical royal colleges and Faculties have today published a joint statement calling on the next prime minister and leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party to make health and care a priority.

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Progress+ - getting neonates and community experience

20 July 2022

We are aware that there is some anxiety around �鶹��ý Progress+, which goes live in summer 2023, and the rethink of how trainee paediatricians will gain their neonatal and communities experience. We recognise that these are valid concerns and that this change is coming at an ever increasingly challen...

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Extreme heat an increasing threat to health without rapid transition away from fossil fuels

19 July 2022

A joint statement from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and The Lancet Countdown on how growing extreme heat in the UK and across Europe is threatening people’s health.

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�鶹��ý responds to the GMC’s national training survey - 2022

19 July 2022

The General Medical Council’s annual national training survey reveals a continuing worsening trend in answers to questions about workload and burnout.

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Reducing health inequalities: We are looking to hear about your projects

15 July 2022

Are you involved in a project or initiative in your local area that is working to tackle health inequalities in the UK? If so, we want to hear from you.

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�鶹��ý responds to Welsh report, ‘Mind the gap: what’s stopping change?’

15 July 2022

The Welsh NHS Confederation Health and Wellbeing Alliance has published a comprehensive report ‘Mind the gap: what’s stopping change?’, on why the current cost of living crisis is a health crisis and the health impact of growing inequalities across Wales.

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Using data to improve our communities - President's blog

15 July 2022

This week Camilla joined a symposium with an inspiring, energised group of professionals to look at the health inequalities identified in the 'Born in Bradford' programme - so how can we spread such ideas more widely?