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RCPCH responds to the Northern Ireland Assembly recall
21 July 2022
The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be recalled on 26 July.
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Joint statement from medical royal colleges and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Conservative ĢƵ contest
21 July 2022
Medical royal colleges and Faculties have today published a joint statement calling on the next prime minister and leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party to make health and care a priority.
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Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland- consultation response
RCPCH welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland consultation in June 2022. This sets out the proposed strategic priorities in response to the Urgent and Emergency Care Review Report, which initially launched in ...
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Reducing health inequalities: We are looking to hear about your projects
15 July 2022
Are you involved in a project or initiative in your local area that is working to tackle health inequalities in the UK? If so, we want to hear from you.
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Setting new targets for air quality - consultation response
In June 2022 we responded to a consultation from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on setting environmental targets. We responded to the questions on target proposals for air quality only. This page provides a summary and you can download our full response.
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Tightening rules on advertising and promoting vaping products consultation response
In April 2022, we responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the advertising and promotion of vaping products in Scotland. Below is a short summary, with our full response available in the downloads section.
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Paediatricians call on government to take action as children’s waiting lists soar to 350,000 for the first time
16 June 2022
NHS England published referral to treatment waiting times for April 2022 on 16 June 2022. For the first time, we have a full year of consultant-led paediatric waiting lists data.
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RCPCH responds to news reports on potential for children refugees relocated to Rwanda
14 June 2022
Recent news reports have raised concerns that some age disputed children could be included as part of the Government's relocation of migrants to Rwanda under the UK Government's migration policy.
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Transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists - consultation response
In June 2022 we responded to the Health & Social Care Committee’s request for evidence on the Welsh Government Plan to Transform Planned Care and Reduce Waiting Lists.
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RCPCH responds to ‘Making smoking obsolete’, an independent review into smokefree 2030 policies
10 June 2022
On 9th June 2022, an independent report titled “Making smoking obsolete” was published making recommendations to the UK government to reach its objective for England to be smokefree by 2030.