Rare disease

Course

RCPCH-BPSU Webinar: PIND - What you need to know about the many neurodegenerative diseases of UK children

17 March 2026

In this webinar, Dr Christopher Verity explores the recognition and diagnosis of rare neurodegenerative diseases in children and provides practical guidance on designing epidemiological studies, drawing on insights from the BPSU PIND study

Course

Neonatal & Paediatric ECG & Arrhythmia Course

21 January 2026

This is a basic plus course that will upskill clinicians and allied health professionals in neonatal and paediatric ECG interpretation and relevant management

Academic medicine

Anaesthesia

Cardiovascular

Child and adolescent mortality

Community child health

Emergency medicine

General paediatrics

Intensive care medicine

Course

Neonatal Cardiology including POCUS (Remote Delivered)

14 January 2026

This is a Basic Plus Online Course that will benefit neonatal consultants & trainees, paediatricians with neonatal interest and critical care doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, and researchers who have commenced or intend to commence performing echocardiograms on neonates. The Course aims to ...

Inherited metabolic medicine

Intensive care medicine

Course

Point of Care Ultrasound – lung & lines, abdomen & heart (Hands on)

21 February 2026

Brighton

This Course will benefit Paediatric and Neonatal consultants & trainees, and advanced nurse practitioners, and researchers in the diagnostic use of ultrasound as per POCUS guidance. The Course aims to deliver the essential theoretical knowledge and practical experience with helpful tips relevant to ...

Intensive care medicine

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Denney Award

This award is presented to an outstanding medically-qualified research worker for the best article related to paediatric rare disease research. Applications are now open until 19 December 2025 at 23:59.

Conditions

Rare disease

Fellowships, awards and prizes

Research

RCPCH Conference

News

We paediatricians are lifelong learners – President’s update

3 March 2025

When Steve joins events around the country, he’s reminded that coming together as communities of child health professionals is so important – for friendship as well as education. And, the College has been doing lots around public affairs on equal protection for children from assault, supervised toot...

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Tribute to Gordon Herbert Denney, Hon. FRCPCH

8 February 2024

Gordon Denney (1928-2024) had a distinguished career with the City of London Corporation and the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. In his retirement Gordon was the honorary administrator of the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation UK which provided support for research into this rare but devastating c...

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BPSU Study - Near Fatal Asthma

BPSU surveillance of the Near Fatal Asthma in children and young people in UK and Republic of Ireland will commence with the October 2022 reporting card on the new data collection platform. The study aims to describe the frequency, risks factors, clinical care and future asthma risk of children and ...

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BPSU Study - Acute Hepatitis 22

BPSU surveillance of the Acute Hepatitis in Children 2022 commenced in May 2022 collecting cases seen from January 2022 onwards. This study aims to understand viral, non-viral or unidentified causes of this apparent increase in cases of acute hepatitis reported to the UKHSA. The study is being led b...

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Think positively about FASD - reflections from a paediatrician

20 September 2021

Dr Patricia Jackson, a RCPCH Fellow based in Edinburgh, looks back on International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day, which was on 9 September. She shares, from a personal perspective, information gained on how paediatricians can become more aware of and make a diagnosis of FASD.