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Quality standards for specialist paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition

These standards aim to reduce variation in care, ensuring equitable services, and to improve the health outcomes and quality of life for all infants, children and young people with gastroenterology, liver or intestinal disorders in the UK. You can read our summary and download the full standards bel...

Networks for health services

Service planning

Workforce

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Rainbow Health Youth Supporters pack - LGBT+ health experiences

Young people from Central Bedfordshire Youth Voice worked with the RCPCH &Us team to explore Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) health experiences. Inspired by the NHS Rainbow Badge Initiative, the group contributed their views, ideas and recommendations for creating LGBT+ aware and acce...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

Equality, diversity and inclusion

LGBTQ+

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Rapid access service - Hillingdon Hospital

This page provides a best practice example for standard 2 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the hot clinic provided in Hillingdon Hospital. The hot clinic prevents children from attending A&E unnecessarily by providing rapid access to a consultant for any chil...

Primary care

Secondary care

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Integrated care

Models of care

Service planning

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RCPCH Ambassadors - supporting advocacy for children and young people locally and nationally in England

Ambassadors are volunteer RCPCH members who use their clinical expertise and local knowledge to help create positive change. They share local information with the College on whether and how health systems are meeting the needs of children and young people. And, they advocate for both children’s serv...

Service design

Workforce

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RCPCH and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - Member and volunteer data 2020-22

In our first 'Working for change'' report in 2021 we committed to annually reporting on EDI data held for our members and staff, along with aggregated disclosure rates relating to protected characteristics. We collated data from 2020, 2021 and 2022 on this page (including records up to January 2023)...

Data

Volunteering

Membership

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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RCPCH and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - opening up volunteer roles

In 2019, we commissioned a report, with external input, on member representation in our voluntary roles. In our action plan, published in July 2020, we outlined how we would implement these recommendations. This was our first step to improve EDI across all areas of our work. One year on, w...

Leadership

Volunteering

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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RCPCH and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - Working for change

Here you can find the reports we published on our EDI work as part of our two-year Working for change programme.

Health inequalities

Society

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Workforce

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RCPCH Code of Conduct

This Code of Conduct is for all individuals undertaking work for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). We wish to emphasise the importance of giving Ģ��Ƶ to others in the College through adherence to the principles of behaviour and values laid out below.

Volunteering

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RCPCH Commission on Immunisation Access, Uptake and Equity

Rates of uptake of all childhood vaccines in the UK have been declining every year over the past decade. There are significant inequalities in vaccine uptake among population groups and geographical areas in the UK. RCPCH has established a multidisciplinary commission to review what can be done t...

Public health

Vaccination

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RCPCH ePortfolio guidance for doctors

Doctors in UK paediatric training programme (trainees) and doctors in paediatrics (non training grade) can use RCPCH ePortfolio to record learning in all its forms and settings to monitor progress against the curriculum. It is mandatory for all in UK training posts and strongly recommended for anyon...

Paediatric careers