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Our members are based in the UK and internationally, and include many child health professionals from paediatricians to nurses to allied health professionals - find out more.

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Dr Camilla Kingdon and Professor Steve Turner elected as incoming President and Registrar

11 December 2020

Dr Camilla Kingdon will be the next President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and will succeed Professor Russell Viner in spring 2021. Professor Steve Turner will be the next Registrar, taking over from Dr Mike Linney.

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Reflections on time as Chair of Trainees Committee

30 November 2020

After two years in post, Hannah Jacob shares her highlights and how proud she is of what the Trainees' Committee has achieved.

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�� responds to GMC report on medical education

27 November 2020

We respond to 'The state of medical education and practice in the UK', the flagship annual report from the General Medical Council (GMC).

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Shaping our future working lives: what you told us

25 November 2020

In February 2020, we asked members to join us in a survey about the future of paediatrics in the UK to inform our Paediatrics 2040 project. Here, Dr Judith van der Voort, Chair of the project’s working lives group, discusses some of the themes that were shared.

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NPDA – The experiences of parents and patients

23 November 2020

Clinical Lead for the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) Dr Justin Warner introduces us to the Parent and Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREM) report. This is their first report looking at over 13,000 responses from surveys completed by children and young people with diabetes, as well ...

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Message from the President - 20 November

20 November 2020

Russell acknowledges the incredible achievements by our colleagues and partners in life sciences and highlights a difficult road ahead - with the very real risk that this pandemic could scar and hold back a whole generation.

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An opportunity to advocate for reducing child health inequalities

16 November 2020

Dr Rakhee Shah is an ST6 Community Paediatric Registrar and was Clinical Advisor for the State of Child Health 2020 report. We hear why she got involved and the experience she had working on the report. She also encourages others to believe in themselves and not allow imposter syndrome hinder them f...

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Statement from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health about trainee redeployment

6 November 2020

We respond to surge guidance published by Health Education England (HEE).

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Meet the �� Recruitment Team

28 October 2020

The College’s new Officer for Recruitment, Dr Simon Broughton, introduces the members behind his Recruitment Team: Dr Emma Coombe, Dr Kay Tyerman and Dr Alok Sharma. The team is committed to working together to promote paediatrics as a career and to always put trainees first.

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�� and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - our approach and governance

Our EDI work started with a fundamentally important step for the College; that we hold a mirror up to ourselves, look at whether we truly reflect the breadth and diversity of our membership and start to put into place the actions that will answer these questions. Since 2020 we have explored seve...

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Equality, diversity and inclusion