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Our response to contemporary child health issues

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�鶹��ý responds to GMC's SAS and LE doctors survey

9 January 2020

The GMC today published their first survey of specialty and associate specialist and locally employed doctors. Dr Prakash Kalambettu, chair of the �鶹��ý’s Staff, Associate Specialist and Specialty Doctor Committee, comments on the findings.

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We welcome GMC report on the state of medical education and practice

18 December 2019

The General Medical Council has today released its 2019 State of Medical Education and Practice in the UK report. Dr Camilla Kingdon, �鶹��ý Vice President for Education and Professional Development, welcomes the findings.

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Pensions tax loading additional pressure on paediatric workforce, according to �鶹��ý survey of members

5 December 2019

We surveyed 715 paediatricians in the UK to assess the effects of the pensions tax issue on services, morale, and work practices.

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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.

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�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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�鶹��ý responds to A&E waiting times

14 November 2019

We respond to the publication of A&E waiting times by the NHS. Less than three-quarters of patients attending A&E departments in England during October were seen within the four hour target period.

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�鶹��ý responds to Academy pensions consultation

5 November 2019

�鶹��ý participated in a consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges about proposals to reform the NHS Pension Scheme.

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Non-UK graduates less likely to be appointed to consultant posts, survey finds

10 October 2019

Paediatricians who qualified from medical school in a non-UK country are less likely to be offered a consultant post than their UK-trained peers, according to survey of 155 doctors by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (�鶹��ý).

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�鶹��ý responds to CMO report on obesity

10 October 2019

The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, has today released an independent report entitled "Time to Change Childhood Obesity". �鶹��ý President, Professor Russell Viner, responds.