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RCPCH Progress+ domain resources: Health promotion and illness prevention
We look at how to recognise and optimise everyday opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent illness.
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RCPCH responds to GMC's National Training Survey - 2018
30 November 2018
RCPCH President says paediatricians are finding it hard to find the time to learn and develop their skills and are experiencing high levels of stress and exhaustion - "it cannot be right."
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Changes to the nation's lifestyle needed to improve child health
26 November 2018
RCPCH's Officer for Scotland, Professor Steve Turner, responds to Scottish's Government's 'Growing up in Scotland: overweight and obesity at age 10' report.
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GDPR: six months on
25 November 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation, along with the Data Protection Act 2018, replaced the Data Protection Act 1998 on 25 May 2018. Here we address some of the common misconceptions about the legislation six months after it came into effect.Â
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RCPCH responds to ASH 'smokefree generation' report
20 November 2018
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has today launched a new report calling for action to address smoking closer to where people live. Dr Max Davie responds.
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I'll get by with a little help from my friends - reflections from a general paediatrician
15 November 2018
When recently asked why he chose to work in paediatrics, it got Dave Beattie, an ST7 in General Paediatrics based in Edinburgh, thinking. He reflected that after seven years of practicing in this niche, it's easy to forget how and why he originally chose to go down this route. Here are a few of his ...
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Supporting the challenges we all face in our career: how mentoring can help
15 November 2018
Matt Driver, Lead faculty for RCPCH mentoring skills courses and peer support webinars, explores the role of skilled, trained mentors in supporting doctors throughout their careers.
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Scotland eBulletin - October 2018
12 November 2018
Steve Turner, Officer for Scotland, introduces this month's newsletter for our members in Scotland. Get caught up with the latest news...
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Learning together to improve child health - joint position paper
This paper from RCPCH and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) on inter-professional training advocates that GP and paediatric trainees work side by side in order to share ideas and learn from each other.
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Shaping the future of paediatric care - introducing Paediatrics 2040
8 November 2018
We have started work on our two-year project of enquiry, which will set a vision for the future of paediatrics in the UK.