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Sugar tax now in force
6 April 2018
This new measure aims to reduce childhood obesity rates and improve the health of the nation.
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Professor Russell Viner takes up role as RCPCH President
4 April 2018
Professor Viner, an academic paediatrician and adolescent physician at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London, has offically taken up the position of RCPCH President. Russell works clinically in paediatric and adolescent diabetes at University College Hospital.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in children鈥檚 weight reversed in the UK between 1953 and 2015
21 March 2018
Since the post-war period, socioeconomic inequalities in children鈥檚 weight have reversed in the UK 鈥 with disadvantaged children originally being more likely to be thinner than more advantaged children, but now typically being more likely to be overweight or obese, according to an observational stud...
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Warning over blueberry muffin hidden sugar content
21 March 2018
New analysis by Action on Sugar and the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) shows huge variation in sugar content, portion size and lack of nutrition labelling on blueberry muffins sold at out of home outlets in the UK鈥檚 busiest train stations and supermarkets.
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New research by the RCPCH and Nuffield Trust reveals UK lagging behind peers on child health
15 March 2018
According to a new international analysis looking at child health measures over time and across 14 comparable countries, published today by the RCPCH and the Nuffield Trust, child health outcomes for babies and young children in the UK are poor compared to comparable countries.
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Experts urge government to fortify flour with folic acid
29 January 2018
A new study reinforces calls for the Department of Health to approve the fortification of flour with folic acid to protect against neural tube defects in babies
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Westminster urged to look to Wales as nation puts child health first
23 January 2018
Children鈥檚 doctors are praising the Welsh Government for its commitment to child health, but warns promises 鈥榤ust be delivered鈥, as a new scorecard, published today by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), reveals Wales is well ahead of Westminster in terms of progress against i...
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New figures reveal over 28% of Welsh children are living in poverty
23 January 2018
The End Child Poverty coalition has today published figures providing a new Child Poverty map of the UK. In Wales, the figures show that over 28% of children are living in poverty, and in some constituency, this rises to a 1/3 of all children.
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Fragmented approach to child health damaging long term health of nation, RCPCH warns
17 January 2018
Child health is suffering at the hands of a disjointed approach from central Government is the warning from the RCPCH as it publishes its 鈥淪tate of Child Health: One year on鈥 scorecard today. The scorecards for England, Scotland and Wales describe progress against the series of recommendations made ...
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BPSU study - Nutritional rickets
Surveillance of nutritional rickets presenting to secondary care in children and young people concluded in March 2017. The study team hoped to ascertain the incidence of nutritional rickets and presentational features of the condition.
The study group has now published its findings in the Archiv...