Digital health

News

RCPCH welcomes the latest urgent and emergency care plan

6 June 2025

The urgent and emergency care plan 2025/26 is a strategy aimed at addressing the increasing demand on emergency services in England.

News

RCPCH launches manifesto for Welsh children ahead of 2026 election

20 March 2025

Before the Senedd election in May 2026, paediatricians are setting out what the next Welsh Government should do to improve child health.

News

Let us know your experiences with digital skills and solutions

17 January 2025

Advances in technology and the evolving landscape in digital medicine will help deliver the best possible care to children and young people. But how can we best do this? We're inviting members to complete surveys to help us develop a new digital healthcare programme at the College.

News

RCPCH responds to Elective Recovery Plan

6 January 2025

Paediatricians reiterate need for adequate workforce planning and funding for to tackle out of control waiting times for child health services.

Committee

Digital Committee

The Digital Committee provides key insight into the development of all externally facing digital activity undertaken by the College.

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�ʼһ�� the Digital Growth Charts API

Evaluating and recording a child’s growth has traditionally involved plotting measurements on paper growth charts which have been developed using complex data sets and statistics. To support the drive to digitise healthcare RCPCH has, for the first time ever, developed a Digital Growth Charts API...

Community child health

General paediatrics

Digital health

Infant health

Resource

Paediatrics 2040 launch - recording of online event

In late February 2021, we ran an online event to launch Paediatrics 2040, which offers a vision for the future of paediatrics in the UK. We invite our members and friends to watch the recording.

Individual profile

Adam Igra, Independent Trustee

News

Assessing the impact of innovation on the delivery of paediatric care – what does the future hold?

12 February 2020

Dr Damian Roland explains why innovation is one of the four major workstreams we are considering in our Paediatrics 2040 project.

Document

SNOMED-CT - How-to guide for clinicians

SNOMED-CT allows clinicians to accurately record patient data at the point of care and share information across health systems. In England, SNOMED-CT is implemented across all care settings as of April 2020, and we are supporting specialty and special interest groups to develop specific SNOMED-CT co...

Digital health

Quality improvement

Service design