Dr Ronny Cheung is a consultant paediatrician and co-author of State of Child Health 2020. This article is part of a series to mark one year on from the publication of State of Child Health 2020 by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. What sort of experience have…

16 hours. Longer than a long day or night shift. That’s how long many Muslims around the globe will be fasting for every day for a month this spring. The NHS has a workforce comprised of 46,000 Muslims. …

By Sinead Phelan, Communications Officer at RCPCH Month by month, there are more children on a waiting list within the NHS, 100,000 more than there were a year ago. This might be an infant seeking help with a developmental delay, a young adult waiting for counselling or perhaps a 12-year-old…

By Rebecca Bellars, Head of Media and Public Affairs at RCPCH. The cost of living crisis weighs on all our minds at present. For those who are already living on the breadline, it weighs even more heavily on their shoulders. …

Dr Laura C N Wood & Dr Sarah Boutros — “One of the worst things a person can ever do to a child is to deny them their humanity, to treat them as a mere thing, a disposable commodity, a tool to be manipulated, used and disposed of at will for personal gain.” — Laura Wood With myriad potentially devastating…

Dr Rosie Spooner is a paediatric trainee with Severn Deanery, and the Deputy Chair of the Climate Change Expert Reference Group at RCPCH. In 2015 the Paris Agreement, signed by 192 states, agreed to limit global warming to well below 2°C, pursuing efforts to limit warming as close to 1.5°C…

Jade* is a 9-and-a-half-year-old patient with a passion for running that started during the lockdown. Her family were amazed at her progress from Joe Wicks to 10k but something more was happening. What was driving her weight loss? And what is her monster? …

A mental health inpatient admission can be a traumatic experience for a young person and their carers. Candace Imison and Jodi Brown describe the work the National Institute for Health Research, Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (NIHR CED) have done to see how the experience can be improved. …

The loss of funding because of the ODA cuts has stalled a valuable programme: Dickya Labicane, Dr Alexandra Pledge and Dr Andrew McArdle speak about the impact that programmes funded by overseas aid can have for infants, children and young people in developing countries, as well as how that impact…