Children and young people's voice

Through the RCPCH &Us programme, we work with children, young people and families to improve child health.

Resource

Worried and waiting: A review of paediatric waiting times in Wales 2024

This bilingual report, published February 2024, provides an analysis of ‘paediatric pathway’ waiting times data in Wales from 2016-2023, with a spotlight on the last year. The report contains recommendations for the Welsh Government, Health Boards and Health Education and Improvement Wales, which if...

Public affairs and campaigning

Service design

Service planning

Workforce

News

Patient safety podcast 4 - Involving children, young people and their families

31 January 2024

Children and young people must be central to the co-design and co-production of patient safety improvement interventions. In this episode, we hear from Dr Victoria Dublon and Dr Jane Runnacles, champions of improvement work that puts the young person and their needs first.

News

RCPCH publishes a summary of children and young people’s perspectives on how to tackle climate change

20 November 2023

The summary brings together the Children and Young People’s (CYP) key recommendations from the recent RCPCH report, Preserving the world for future generations, and aims to provide decision makers and paediatricians with a digestible summary of our evidence.

Resource

Preserving the world for future generations: Children and young people's perspective on how to tackle climate change

Our research report gives insight into how children and young people perceive and understand climate change.

Children and young people's voice

Climate change

Basic page

The UK Paediatric Epilepsy Programme Board is looking for Experts by Experience

Having seen the incredible benefit that Experts by Experience bring, the UK Paediatric Epilepsy Programme Board has agreed to expand and we are excited to announce we now have seven opportunities for new Experts by Experience to join the board. Deadline for applications: Midnight, 15 August 2023.

Epilepsy

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

Patient experience

News

Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates awarded the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award 2023 by HQIP

20 June 2023

On 20 June 2023, the Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates were announced as joint winners of the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). The award is one of five Clinical Audit Heroes Awards that are announced during the 2023 Clinical Audit Awareness...

Resource

Engaging children and young people - an introduction

The RCPCH Children & Young People's engagement team work to ensure that the voice of children, young people (CYP) and families is making a difference in child health and healthcare. We actively involve CYP across the UK and support healthcare professionals to engage, to find out what CYP want for th...

Children and young people's voice

Resource

Engaging children and young people - improving communication

We have collated a number of resources and RCPCH &Us project work which gives you practical tools and advice on how healthcare professionals can improve their communication with children, young people and their families. Much of this content has been created with children and young people and includ...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

Patient experience

Patient involvement

Resource

Engaging children and young people - voice bank

RCPCH &Us speaks to children and young people (CYP) throughout the UK to share their views and experiences of health and healthcare. These views have been collated to create a ‘Voice Bank’ containing a rich source of information on CYP ideas, concerns and expectations which is vital knowledge for he...

Children and young people's voice

Quality improvement

Service design

Resource

Engaging children and young people - how to do it

Engaging with children and young people means that we seek out their thoughts, feelings, ideas, concerns and expectations around health and healthcare, and then work collaboratively to create a healthcare service that meets their needs. Here we provide a 'how-to' guide for how to meaningfully and ef...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice