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ICHG Webinar - Embracing discomfort: Challenging colonial legacies in child health

04 November 2026

Online

In this webinar, members of the International Child Health Group (ICHG) explore how colonial legacies continue to influence global child health and what meaningful decolonisation looks like in practice. Discover how paediatricians, educators and institutions can challenge inequity, rethink partnersh...

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Milestones magazine for members: Digital health – autumn 2026

24 September 2026

Welcome to the autumn edition of Milestones, which is available to read online now. This issue focuses on digital innovation and its ability to shape paediatrics, from how AI might be used across the education landscape to the many ways technology can support children and young people’s experience o...

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New standards launched to improve health and wellbeing for children and young people in care across the UK

13 November 2025

The �鶹ӰԺ has published new Initial Health Assessment Delivery Standards.

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Paediatricians respond to worrying child mortality data

13 November 2025

The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) have published their Child Death Review data for England in 2025.

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Paediatricians warn toxic air and poor housing threaten the lives of over a million children in England

24 June 2025

In England, 1.5 million children live in unsafe, substandard homes, where poor environmental conditions cause and contribute to asthma, respiratory infections, and chronic illness, further worsening health inequalities.

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�鶹ӰԺ responds to child and infant mortality data in England and Wales 2023

22 April 2025

ONS have published data on stillbirths, infant and childhood deaths occurring annually in England and Wales, and associated risk factors.

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Health inequalities rampant in PICU admissions

13 December 2024

The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) has published a report summarising paediatric critical care activity within paediatric intensive care units (PICU) between 2021 and 2023.

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�鶹ӰԺ publishes updated LGBTQ+ principle statement

21 November 2024

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has updated their LGBTQ+ principle statement a part of a regular review process.

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�鶹ӰԺ: Action needed on poverty and high sugar products as childhood obesity rates persist

5 November 2024

Paediatricians call for action as obesity levels among children starting their first year of school have increased to almost one in ten.

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Clinical examiner for MRCPCH and/or DCH

Medical professionals can apply to become an examiner for MRCPCH (membership exam) and DCH (Diploma of Child Health) clinical examinations. If you are interested in becoming an examiner for either exam, please see below.

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