Leading the Way 13: Leading change, with Dr Nadeem Moghal

How can we build services that better understand population needs?
In this episode, Dr Jonathan Darling speaks to Dr Nadeem Moghal, Director and...

Understanding the RCPCH Assessment Review - changes to workplace-based assessments

Want to know more about the RCPCH's Assessment Review particularly what, why, when and how it's going to affect you? This podcast episode aims to do j...

Leading the Way 12: The quiet power of SAS doctor leadership, with Dr Kumar Swamy

Representing around 30% of the medical workforce in the NHS, SAS doctors are essential to delivering high-quality care. Yet their role is still evolvi...

Child health research 1: Digital health technologies, with Professor Paul Dimitri

How can we use digital technology to address children's physical and mental health needs and shift from reactive to anticipatory, personalised care?

Influencing the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act

How does the College combine paediatric and policy expertise to influence legislation? Professor Andrew Rowland, Officer for Child Protection, talks a...

Leading the Way 11: Trust, courage and diversity in medical leadership, with Dr Erum Jamall

How can we overcome the transition from clinical practice to managerial roles?
In this episode, Dr Jonathan Darling, RCPCH Vice President for Ed...

Leading the Way 10: Leading through advocacy and collaboration, with Dr Kay Tyerman

How can we be firm, fair, and tenacious in standing up for our teams and those we serve?
In this episode, Dr Jonathan Darling, RCPCH Vice Presid...

Leading the way 9: Compassionate leadership in challenging times, with Will Clement

We are working in a period of sustained challenge. Many colleagues across the health system are stretched, fatigued and, in some cases, bordering on b...

Leading the way 8: Strategic leadership in safeguarding, with Dr Vicki Walker

All child health professionals, no matter their role, must have knowledge and skills in safeguarding. As a designated doctor in child protection, Vick...

Leading the Way 7: Stepping up when opportunities arise, with Professor Steve Turner

Failure, Steve tells us, is a good teacher, and when you get involved in leadership, expect to make mistakes (and learn from them).
In this epis...

Leading the way 6: Helping others thrive, with Dr Jonathan Darling

This month, it's our usual podcast host Jonathan in the spotlight! He's interviewed by Arnab Seal, who featured in our previous episode. 
How to...

Leading the way 5: Dreaming big, with Dr Arnab Seal

Arnab's story is ambitious and inspiring: he helped establish a new hospital and introduced a pioneering approach to healthcare in India. That's not s...

Leading the way: Layers of learning, with Dr Dal Hothi

What's at the heart of leadership? For Dal, it's about being authentic - to be self-aware and grounded in our values. But it's also about learning to...

Yoga nidra relaxation practice for wellbeing

Leading the way: Seizing opportunities as a resident doctor, with Dr Josh Hodgson

Josh's story began with a simple but powerful moment—he took an opportunity that came his way.
In the third episode of 'Leading the way', our mo...

Leading the way: Bloom where you grow, with Dr Emma Dyer

Step out of your comfort zone, encourage others, simply show up with integrity... leadership doesn't always mean taking centre stage.
In this se...

Leading the way: Finding joy in leadership, with Dr Simon Broughton

Leadership isn't about titles - it's about action, passion and impact. And it's for everyone working in child health. 
From clinical academia to...

Our blueprint for transforming child health services - six months on

Dr Ronny Cheung, Officer for Health Services, joins Alison Firth, Head of Health Policy, and Bruce Warwick, Public Affairs Manager, for a lively discu...

Child health and climate change: Nepal

In this final episode of our podcast series on the changing climate, this mountainous country is seeing extreme temperature fluctuations, landslides a...

Child health and climate change: Canada

Floods, heatwaves and wildfires have become increasingly common across Canada. And as retired paediatrician Dr Julian Pleydell-Pearce explains in this...

Child health and climate change: Uganda

Less predictable weather in the past several years in this east African country have made it increasingly difficult to grow crops, leading to food sho...

Patient safety 5 – The impact of healthcare inequality on patient safety

Health inequalities are widening in paediatrics. Those that are more disadvantaged experience more safety issues whilst in health care.  If we can mak...

Patient safety 4 - Involving children, young people and their families in making healthcare safer

It is imperative that children and young people are central to the co-design and co-production of our patient safety improvement interventions.
...

Patient safety 3 - How do we improve how we learn from harm?

It is not enough just to collect data on harm occurring to children in healthcare settings. We need the data to be robust, comparable across the NHS a...

Patient safety 2 - If we are psychologically safe, children are safer in our care

Psychological safety in healthcare settings is the condition in which you feel included, safe to learn, safe to contribute and safe to challenge the s...

Patient safety 1 - How can we build a culture of safety in paediatric healthcare?

Healthcare is inherently risky and so as child health professionals we need to make patient safety a priority in all our actions. We need to think abo...

The state of digital child health today - an interview with Professor Sam Shah

Richard Burley, Executive Director of Digital talks with Professor Shah about how digital technology can support child health, and how paediatricians...

Shift the dial on climate change and health inequalities

Climate change poses an existential risk to child health and is exacerbating health inequalities. But, paediatricians can play an important role in sh...

How to build a paediatrician

Talking about the intentionality behind what the College does to train and support paediatricians: RCPCH Vice President for Training and Assessment, D...

Wellbeing as paediatricians - creating environments where we can thrive at work

Two paediatricians share thoughts around vulnerability, compassion and belonging at work. Jess and Anna talk about brave spaces, the importance (and l...

Conversations with policy makers - with Dame Andrea Leadsom MP

In a first for our podcasts, we delve into the world of government and parliament. RCPCH President Camilla Kingdon speaks with Dame Andrea Leadsom MP,...

Child health inequalities part 2 - interviews with two quality improvement projects

We hear from two teams doing innovative work to better understand the impact of poverty on children and young people's health, and design NHS services...

Stories of impact - on health care, outcomes and the quality of life for children and young people with diabetes

In our second series of College Strategy 2021-24 podcasts we look at the Strategy in action. Hearing stories from clinicians, children and young peopl...

A young person’s experience of living with epilepsy

In this first of a podcast series from the Medicines for Children team, we speak with Fiona, a young person with epilepsy, and her mum, Karen. It's an...

Our voices: young people and climate change

This podcast is created by young volunteers with RCPCH &Us and is all about climate change, with some international guests from Ghana and others close...

Shining a light on children's mental health

Mental health can be a challenging and sensitive topic. In this podcast, five child health professionals talk about how they are are tackling the issu...

Child health inequalities part 1 - Talking with families

We know that children living in poverty are more likely to experience poorer health outcomes. Paediatricians are in a unique and crucial position to a...

Our voices: engagement done well

This podcast is all about working with children and young people to help improve their health and the health of others. Have a listen for ideas, examp...

Child health research matters to medicine - part 2 of 2

The conversation continues between Professor Paul Dimitri, our Vice President for Science & Research, and Emily Arkell, Director of Research & Policy,...

Child health research matters to medicine - part 1 of 2

We consider the importance of research to clinical practice in child health. This is the first of a two-part conversation between Professor Paul Dimit...