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Membership
Annual General Meeting 2025All College members are warmly invited to join AGM 2025 on Thursday 27 March at 12:15. You can join us in person at Conference in Glasgow or virtually via a livestream.
Healthy connectionsThe latest issue of your Milestones magazine explores how health professionals can come together to support children and young people – from navigating screen time to adopting a pro-play mindset. -
Education and careers
Our upcoming coursesWe offer a range of courses, including our popular 'How to manage' series on clinical topics, plus safeguarding, effective educational supervision and exam preparation. Many are hosted online. -
Work we do
Our College strategyCovering the next three years and with four strategic goals, our strategy aims to meet our members' priorities to support their working lives and be a powerful advocate for children and young people. -
Resources
National Paediatric Diabetes AuditOur latest annual report highlights the main findings on the quality of care for children and young people with diabetes mellitus in England, Wales and Jersey. Illustration by Phoenix S.
Equal protection from assaultChildren in England and Northern Ireland are the only people in the UK not full protected in law from assault: this is unjust. -
Key topics
Workshop insights for 10 Year Health PlanOver the past months, we've held workshops with children and young people, members and stakeholders in health research. We've now submitted a summary of the insights to Change NHS in England.
Talking about air pollutionWe want to make conversations between child health professionals and families about about air quality 'business as usual'. Our communication toolkit on our Air Pollution Companion has plenty of advice... -
News and events
From Professor Steve Turner...As RCPCH President, Steve shares regular updates with members by email and on this website - such as his regular feature on #WDYCD4Y: What Does Your College Do For You.
See you at Conference?It's our three-day conference this week in Glasgow and online! If you're joining us, you're likely planning your programme. You can book online through this week for all or part of the event.
Worried and waiting - one year onLast March we had published our analysis of paediatric waiting times for outpatients, inpatients and day cases in paediatrics in Scotland from 2012 to 2023. One year on, we examine new data...
Introduced by our President and Chair of Trainees Committee
With messages from our President, Board Chair and CEO, we outline how we developed our strategy, and how it helps ensure we are prepared, resilient and adaptable.
Our vision is a world where every child is healthy and well.
Our mission is to advance child health practice, shape policy, set educational standards and empower paediatricians. We are led by insights from our members, children and young people.
Our values are to include, influence, innovate and inspire.
Our mission is to advance child health practice, shape policy, set educational standards and empower paediatricians. We are led by insights from our members, children and young people.
Our values are to include, influence, innovate and inspire.
Over our three-year strategy, these aim to free up our time and resources, which can in turn be used to create greater impact for our members and for child health.
Our enablers:
- Improve the member experience
- Improve the offer for members with College roles and staff
- Enable efficiencies and diversify our income
- To advance the art and science of Paediatrics
- To raise the standard of medical care provided to children
- To educate and examine those concerned with the health of children
- To advance the education of the public (and in particular medical practitioners) in child health, the prevention of illness and disease in children and safeguarding their optimal development