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RCPCH Conference: strategy, advocacy, and international impact
- Professor Steve TurnerPresident of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
Key points
- The RCPCH strategy was shaped by members' answers to 70 questions asked in 2024 and has four goals.
- The first three goals are to support members, advocate for children and young people, and use research and quality improvement.
- The fourth goal is to increase international impact, including supporting members abroad and humanitarian global work.
Professor Steve Turner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), shares his goals for the RCPCH conference and outlines the College’s strategic direction. He emphasises the importance of lifelong learning, networking, and helping members understand the College’s role. Professor Turner details the four pillars of the RCPCH strategy, developed from extensive member feedback in 2024:
1) Supporting members working under challenging circumstances to help them fulfill their roles.
2) Advocating for children and young people, amplifying their voices in healthcare.
3) Using research and quality improvement to enhance patient care.
4) Expanding international impact, supporting members globally and advancing humanitarian work.
He highlights the College’s continued commitment to these priorities, ensuring both UK-based and international members are supported and that child health advocacy remains central to the College’s mission. This interview took place at the RCPCH conference 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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So, what am I looking to get out of the Glasgow 25 conference? Well, lots of things. I'm looking to learn. You're never too young to stop learning. I'm looking to network with friends, with people, and I've met a whole load of people, some of which I've not seen in 3D for a long time. And I'm looking to help members understand about what the college does for them.
So, where's the college going? Well, we have a strategy. In 2024, we asked our members a lot of questions. There were 70 questions, and we listened to what our members told us and we put this into our strategy. So, our strategy's got four things.
The first goal is to support our members. We know that our members are working under very difficult circumstances and doing their very best. So, our first strategy is to help them fulfil that role.
The second thing was to advocate for children and young people. Children often don't have a voice. The voice of the elderly often drowns them out, and we as a college have got child health in our name and we're advocates for our patients.
Our third strategy is to use research and quality improvement to improve care for our patients. We've got a good track record of that, being as neutral as I can be, and we will carry on doing that.
And our fourth strategy is to improve and increase our international impact. That's both in terms of supporting our members who don't live in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and also our humanitarian global work.
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Professor Steve Turner. “RCPCH Conference: strategy, advocacy, and international impact.” The Paediatric Video Journal, 4 July 2025. https://paediatricvj.com/videos/rcpch-conference-strategy-advocacy-and-international-impact-turner/
This interview is educational content intended for healthcare professionals and is not medical advice. Views expressed are those of the speaker. © The Paediatric Video Journal. All rights reserved.