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Giving feedback about your health service as a child or young person

Want to give feedback about an experience at your hospital or clinic and not sure where to start? Maybe you have had bad treatment, or didn’t understand what was said to you or didn’t feel right? Watch our video to find out how to give feedback, and download our template letter and example letter. ...

Ambulance services

Community services

Children and young people's voice

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Global child health - our impact

Since our foundation, we at RCPCH have embraced a commitment, beyond our work in the UK, to improving child health in the world's poorest countries. We train, mentor and advise on a wide range of medical issues which affect infant and child care services worldwide. For more than 20 years, RCPCH G...

Child and adolescent mortality

Community child health

Continuing professional development

Health inequalities

Quality improvement

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Global child health courses

RCPCH Global manages health system strengthening programmes in some of the world's most challenging countries (including Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Myanmar and Lebanon). As part of our commitment to training the global workforce, we support workforce learning including online and UK-based face-to-...

Global child health

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GMC's 'Good medical practice' - consultation response

In July 2022 we responded to the General Medical Council's consultation on 'Good medical practice', which provides guidance on the standards of care and professional behaviour that the GMC expects from all doctors and other medical professionals. The page has a summary, with the full response availa...

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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GP access to immediate consultant paediatrician telephone advice - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

This page provides a best practice example for standard 1 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the GP hotline service at Wexham Park Hospital. Providing telephone communication allows GP to access advice on admission avoidance, outpatient department avoidance and...

Primary care

Secondary care

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Service planning

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GP streaming and impact on patient flow in the ED - winter pressures case study

Dr Michael McCarron, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Grid Registrar (ST8) from Sheffield Children’s Hospital, outlines the introduction of a GP streaming model and its impact on patient flow through the emergency department.

Service design

Winter planning

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Greener paediatrics: A good practice guide to sustainable asthma care

This good practice guide for health professionals summarises the key points for sustainable asthma care highlighted within the BTS, NICE, SIGN guidance on asthma, including some additional sustainable practice recommendations from RCPCH Climate Change Member Reference Group (CC-MRG).

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Greener paediatrics: Policy context

The NHS is legally committed to achieving Net Zero, but structural and workforce barriers hinder progress. This policy context page explores the roles of government, NHS bodies, Royal Colleges, and clinicians in delivering sustainable healthcare that protects children’s health today and secures a gr...

Public health

Air pollution

Climate change

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Greener paediatrics: Sub-specialties

We present insights to empower paediatricians working in different sub-specialties to embed sustainable healthcare into everyday practice, improving outcomes for children while reducing environmental care. It complements clinical guidance, and, in most cases best evidence-based care is the most sust...

Health policy

Paediatric sub-specialty

Public health

Air pollution

Climate change

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Greener paediatrics: Toolkit

This practical toolkit will help paediatric services embed sustainability into everyday care. It offers clear steps, tools and resources to support the NHS Net Zero ambition while maintaining safe, high-quality care for children and young people.