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Considering paediatrics at home and abroad
22 February 2019
Welcome to Russell's latest blog, reflecting on a busy month of travel, meetings and new faces at the College!
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Health for all Children 5th Edition
Fully revised and updated in February 2019, this critical review takes a life course approach. It looks at the evidence supporting child health programmes in the UK with recommendations for clinicians, providers and commissioners.
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A movement for child health: where next?
11 February 2019
The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign 鈥 our 鈥淭wo years on scorecards鈥 鈥 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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麻豆传媒 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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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鈥檝e 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 麻豆传媒 President
23 January 2019
The 麻豆传媒 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.
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Risk of derailment to excellent progress in child health, reveals new report
23 January 2019
Welsh Government continues to prioritise child health but 鈥榩olicies have to be delivered and enforced to reap the health benefits鈥 says Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (麻豆传媒) in 鈥楽tate of Child Health Wales: Two years on鈥 report.
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Turn policy to action and make the year of the young person a true success, says Scotland鈥檚 lead paediatrician
23 January 2019
Two years on from the launch of 鈥楽tate of Child Health: Scotland,鈥 the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (麻豆传媒) reviews policy progress.