SAS doctor

Specialist, Associate Specialist and Specialty Doctor

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SAS Careers stories – Supporting career changes

17 October 2024

As part of our SAS Careers series, two members share their experience of supporting and navigating career change. Alice and Liz work together in York Hospital and reflect on supporting Alice to transition into a SAS role when leaving training.

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SAS Careers stories – Reflections on the journey

16 October 2024

As part of our SAS Careers series, two RCPCH SAS committee members share their career stories and reflections on what led them to a career as a SAS doctor in paediatrics.

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Specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors - careers information

Specialist, Associate Specialist and Specialty (SAS) doctors are a diverse group of doctors with a wide range of skills and experience, and form an essential part of the paediatric workforce. This resource covers the need to know about SAS careers in paediatrics, whether you are a current SAS doc...

Paediatric careers

Continuing professional development

Resource

Thrive Paediatrics resource hub

Our Thrive Paediatrics programme aims to help members create positive change at work. Our resource hub offers evidence, examples of good practice and stories from paediatricians' lived experience to help you improve both your own wellbeing and that of your colleagues. The Thrive Paediatrics resou...

Thrive Paediatrics

Wellbeing for health professionals

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Rostering guidance for postgraduate doctors in training (England)

Our guidance explains rota design and rostering best practice for specialty trainees and foundation doctors. It outlines what to expect from a working week, including time for education and training, provides examples of a work plan and explains the rostering process. It also includes details on min...

Service planning

Workforce

Volunteering opportunity

Examiners for MRCPCH and/or DCH

Medical professionals can apply to become an examiner for MRCPCH (membership exam) and DCH (Diploma of Child Health) clinical examinations. If you are interested in becoming an examiner for either exam, please see below.

Continuing professional development

Examinations

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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Medication safety: Management of the supply of unlicensed liquid medicines to children - recommendations for implementation

NHS England tasked the RCPCH/NPPG Medicines Committee to improve the safety of liquid medicines during the transition from hospital to home care. This follows several serious incidents, including the death of a child due to confusion over liquid morphine strengths. Mistakes can occur because of t...

Drugs and medicines

Patient safety

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Whooping cough - poster and joint statement from RCPCH, RCOG, RCM and RCGP

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) issue this advice in a joint statement for worried parents and carers and healthcare professionals on...

Community child health

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Workforce information - Deep dive on consultant and SAS doctors, Spring 2024

We collate and analyse paediatric workforce and service information in the UK to support members, workforce planners and policy makers. In this first of our 'deep dives' into the data, we review the consultant and SAS doctors workforce, both in headcount and full time equivalent (FTE) working across...

Research

Workforce

Volunteering opportunity

Less Than Full Time Training Advisors Network regional representatives - volunteering opportunities

Closing date

27 April 2026

Representatives on this network advise trainees and raise LTFT training issues within their region. We now have vacancies for regional representatives in England and Scotland.

Paediatric training

Workforce