Northern Ireland

Members working in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are represented at College Council by the Officer for Ireland - find out useful contacts and activity on your College region's web page

News

�� calls for extending access to free school meals this summer

16 June 2020

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (��) stands with footballer Marcus Rashford and his campaign to make the government think again on the provision of free school meal vouchers for children this summer.

News

Letter and ARCP update from the four Statutory Education Bodies to all trainees

4 June 2020

This letter from 3 June 2020 states that to maintain the essential pipeline of trained medical staff, resumption of training must be given full support and a very high priority as services are planned and reintroduced.

Document

Clinical guideline directory

The guideline directory contains a full list of paediatric guidelines published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), as well as those from other Royal Colleges or paediatric specialty groups which meet the standar...

Clinical guidelines and standards

Document

COVID-19 &Us - views from �� &Us

�� &Us is working with young people to reflect on their experiences of COVID-19 and the lockdown. This will help inform future planning for times of national crisis such as a natural disaster, another pandemic, terrorist incident or other cause of nationwide disruption.

Mental health

COVID-19

Adolescent health

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

�� &Us

Patient experience

Wellbeing for children and young people

Document

COVID-19 Book Club - children and young people's views

Children and young people have been experiencing the impact of COVID-19, in many ways, from education, to their health, discussions and decisions about the vaccine and in living in a virtual world. We worked with young people (16-25 years old) throughout 2020 and 2021 to make sure their voices were ...

COVID-19

Children and young people's voice

�� &Us

Research

Document

Impact of COVID-19 on child health services between April and July 2020 - report

This report shows findings from child health services across the UK about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, from April to July 2020.

COVID-19

Service planning

Workforce

News

Leading paediatricians publish case definition for illness affecting children during COVID-19

1 May 2020

Leading paediatricians in the UK have set out a working definition of an inflammatory syndrome affecting a very small number of children and which may be associated with COVID-19.

Resource

Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS) - national consensus management pathway

Most children are asymptomatic or exhibit mild symptoms from COVID-19 infection. However, a small number have been identified who develop a significant systemic inflammatory response, which is also known as PIMS-TS or PIMS). In September 2020 a national consensus management pathway was published to ...

Immunology

Intensive care medicine

Rare disease

COVID-19

News

Health Visitors and Paediatricians publish advice for parents about the six-week postnatal check during COVID-19

1 May 2020

The Institute for Health Visiting and �� have published advice for parents who may not be able to attend the six week check for newborn babies.

News

�� responds to pre-print study suggesting children could be as infectious as adults

30 April 2020

Professor Russell Viner, President of ��, responds to a pre-print (non peer reviewed) study which suggests that children who have COVID-19 may have the same levels of circulating virus in their body as adults.