Parent or carer

News

Medicines for Children app will help parents manage their children's medicines

10 May 2019

Our first version is now ready for stress testing by a select group of parents and families from our charity partner, WellChild. If you're joining us at RCPCH Conference and exhibition on 13-15 May, come to our stand for a sneak preview!

News

Vaccinations important and highly effective, says child health expert

27 March 2019

The RCPCH highly recommends vaccination and that anyone who has concerns or questions talk to their health visitor, practice nurse or general practitioner (GP).

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CYP representatives at senior meetings - Morriston Hospital

This page provides a best practice example for standard 11 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines how children, young people and parents are involved in meetings and decision making at Morriston Hospital. Children and young people have shaped service design and use...

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Models of care

Service planning

News

A movement for child health: where next?

11 February 2019

The latest instalment of our State of Child Health campaign – our “Two years on scorecards” – puts the need for progress on key child health issues front and centre of the political agenda across all nations in the UK. We want to make sure we keep up momentum and make children a political priority, ...

News

Supporting treatment and appropriate medication in paediatrics - our pledge

1 February 2019

We have worked with NHS England on a programme to ensure children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both are able to access appropriate medication, and are not prescribed inappropriate psychotropic medication. Find out more and read our full pledge.

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Hidden health - a parent-led card and toolkit

Parents from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital worked with RCPCH &Us to look at three elements of being “hidden”: children and young people with a hidden condition or illness; hidden family carers providing support; hidden support services such as forums. Their toolkit helps raise awareness of condition...

Mental health

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

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State of Child Health &Us 2019: Views from the RCPCH &Us network

We are proud to share voices from the RCPCH &Us network as part of the State of Child Health two years on reports.

Health policy

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

Wellbeing for children and young people

LGBTQ+

Resource

Epilepsy12 &Us - voices from the RCPCH &Us network

Children and young people told us about their experiences of epilepsy care in our "clinic chats" - how they want to get in touch with services, the kind of support they want to receive, their best experiences and their ideas for the future. We worked with our Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates to produce a ...

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

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Epilepsy12 National Organisational Audit Report 2018

This is the first formal output of Round 3 of the Epilepsy12 audit. It describes the organisation of paediatric epilepsy services for children and young people in England and Wales, as at April 2018. It shows improvements in some areas, including numbers of epilepsy nurse specialists and paediatrici...

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Social media guidance

Online interactions and use of social media are certainly not new, but we have put together some references to support our members' work in this area. These cover doctors' use of social media, the impact of screen time on children and young people as well as resources for parents, carers and young p...

Wellbeing for children and young people