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We use our members' expertise and experience to promote child health and inform our responses to current news.

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Sugar tax now in force

6 April 2018

This new measure aims to reduce childhood obesity rates and improve the health of the nation.

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Professor Russell Viner takes up role as RCPCH President

4 April 2018

Professor Viner, an academic paediatrician and adolescent physician at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London, has offically taken up the position of RCPCH President. Russell works clinically in paediatric and adolescent diabetes at University College Hospital.

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Seeing shocking deprivation will stay with me forever: how I started working in child protection

4 April 2018

Gayle Hann, consultant paediatrician and named doctor for child protection, explains her journey to working in safeguarding.

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Risks of valproate medicines in female patients

3 April 2018

We offer additional resources to support girls and young women to understand the risks of taking sodium valproate during pregnancy.

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Sleep, breaks and wellbeing for health professionals

28 March 2018

How can you think about your own health when working shifts and nights? Dr Mike Farquhar, Consultant in Sleep Medicine at Evelina London, explores the importance of sleep on healthcare professionals.

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Brutally honest patients, play and hugging Peppa Pig: why paeds was the job for me

28 March 2018

Ben Carter, a trainee paediatrician (ST3 level), tells us why he joined paediatrics...

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Consultation response to Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027

26 March 2018

The RCPCH has submitted a response to Health Education England’s consultation Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027.

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Socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight reversed in the UK between 1953 and 2015

21 March 2018

Since the post-war period, socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight have reversed in the UK – with disadvantaged children originally being more likely to be thinner than more advantaged children, but now typically being more likely to be overweight or obese, according to an observational stud...

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Warning over blueberry muffin hidden sugar content

21 March 2018

New analysis by Action on Sugar and the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) shows huge variation in sugar content, portion size and lack of nutrition labelling on blueberry muffins sold at out of home outlets in the UK’s busiest train stations and supermarkets.

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Announcing the 2018 PAFTAs

19 March 2018

The College’s national awards in paediatric training (the “PAFTAs”) were presented to three deserving recipients at RCPCH Conference 2018.