RCPCH Podcasts

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

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 episode of...

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

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 pinp...

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

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 monthl...

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

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 nati...

Our blueprint for transforming child health services - six months on

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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?

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Wellbeing for paediatricians part 2 - how members are working with the College

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can we build resilience and promote self-care at work? And what can we do at a Trust and wider level? We speak with two consultant paediatricians:...

A humanitarian presence - RCPCH Global programmes

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our mission to improve child health doesn't end at our borders. The RCPCH Global programme partners with paediatric societies, global aid organisation...

Wellbeing part 1 - how members are engaging the whole team

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Your wellbeing - as busy health professionals - matters. At our annual conference in Liverpool this past June, we spoke with several members making a ...

The changing landscape of a career in paediatrics

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The education and training of paediatricians is core to the College, and we dedicate one of our strategic aims to this theme, including lifelong learn...

Voices from the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion member group

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the joy of finding people with a common purpose to the recognition that there's still a long way to go... College members Segn Nedd, Nadia Audhal...

Advocating for child health, now and in the future

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first of our "In conversation…" series on the College Strategy 2021-24. Dr Mike McKean, our VP for Health Policy speaks with Robert Okun...

Interview with Professor Simon Kenny, National Clinical Director - Children and Young People at NHS England

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

RCPCH President Dr Camilla Kingdon speaks with Professor Simon Kenny about his role at NHS England. They discuss how to keep hold of core priorities i...

Pill swallowing in children 4 : Daniel's story

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel is a young person diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an autoimmune disease. After several months in hospital, he moved from only using liquid ...

Pill swallowing in children 3: The secret life of pharmacists

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicola Vasey, lead pharmacist at the Great North Children's Hospital, discusses the role of pharmacists in pill swallowing. The cost saving outcomes w...

Pill swallowing in children 2: Quality improvement and the meaning of life

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Yincent Tse, a children's kidney doctor with an interest in quality improvement, talks to Dr Emma Lim about the benefits of pill swallowing in rela...

Pill swallowing in children 1: The secret of pill swallowing

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sister Ailsa Pickering, a specialist nurse working with infectious diseases in paediatrics, and Dr Emma Lim, consultant paediatrician at the Great Nor...

Diabetes Quality Programme 06 - Improving time in range

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We speak to the Sandwell and West Birmingham Team about their QI project aimed at improving time in range. Contributors: Dr Chizo Agwu (Consultant Pa...

Interview with Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of Science Media Centre

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our CEO Jo Revill spoke with Fiona Fox at the SMC, an independent press office helping to ensure the public has access to the best scientific evidence...

Diabetes Quality Programme 05 - Improving clinic experience

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We speak to Liz Baker (Consultant Paediatrician) and Jo Ellis (Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse) from York Teaching Hospitals about their QI proje...

Climate action in paediatrics & child health - our podcast on COP26 and beyond

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our Treasurer Liz Marder reflects on COP26 with Dr Richard Smith from the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, discussing what it means for child hea...

Keeping children in school and the COVID-19 vaccine

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, our Chief Executive, Jo Revill speaks with RCPCH President, Camilla Kingdon about COVID-19 vaccination in children and young people, ...

Entrustment with Care Assessment Tool (ECAT)

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We commonly hear from tier 1 doctors who are worried about stepping up. This tool will help you to gain experience, gather specific, constructive feed...

Paediatric sepsis 011 - Sepsis recognition and care during the coronavirus pandemic

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2020, Dr Emma Lim and Professor Mark Peters linked up again to reflect on their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic on paediatric hospit...

Our new College strategy 2021 to 2024 - what to expect

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our President, Camilla Kingdon, and Chief Executive, Jo Revill, met to discuss the new strategy for the College, covering 2021 to 2024, which is publi...

Paediatric sepsis 010 - Sepsis guidelines for children and young people 2020

11 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2020 Professor Mark Peters, Consultant at GOSH and Researcher at the Institute of Child Health, joined Dr Emma Lim to discuss the first ever...

Diabetes Quality Programme 04 - Patient advocacy and transition

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We speak to Jo Kitchen and Amanda Grayson, Patient Advocates at the Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust, about their unique role in supporting young peo...

Quality Improvement 02: Working together to affect change

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of RCPCH Conference 2021, Dr Mathew Mathai, Consultant Paediatrician, and Dr Helen Jepps, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Director for Pae...

Diabetes Quality Programme 03 – Developing a transition service

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We speak with the team at Warrington and Halton NHS Trust on how they have developed their transition service through applying quality improvement (QI...

Quality Improvement 01 - What it means to us

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Quality improvement encapsulates all aspects of patient care – not just the clinical experience but service development, review and evaluation. In t...

RCPCH Insight - Lockdown, charging, and undocumented children

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Bryony Hopkinshaw is a Paediatric Registrar working in London, and today we're talking about the impacts of NHS charging regulations on undocumente...

Yoga nidra relaxation practice for wellbeing

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Shape of Training - October 2020 update

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with David Evans, Vice President for Training and Assessment at RCPCH, led by Lorraine Bullard, Quality & Standards Manager at the Colleg...

Diabetes Quality Programme 02 - Reflections from QI Champions

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Dita Aswani, Dr Carrie Mackenzie and Dr Fiona Campbell talk with Dr Megan Peng and Dr Tricia Woodhead about their team's involvement in the early w...

Diabetes Quality Programme 01 - Our QI Collaborative journey

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Carrie Mackenzie at Sheffield Children's Hospital reflects on her team's journey throughout the QI Collaborative programme and offers recommendatio...

Paediatric sepsis 009 - What sepsis means

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Junior doctor Monica Parker and Emma Lim join forces to provide an overview of the key learnings and take-home messages from the series.  

Paediatric sepsis 008 - The future of tests in sepsis

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr Jethro Herberg, joins Emma Lim and Monica Parker to explore what's next for sepsis - an...

Paediatric sepsis 007 - Management part 2 (fluids and fear)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor of Paediatric Intensive Care Mark Peters and Emma Lim talk about fluids and unpick common fears, examining which fluids to use, when, why an...

Paediatric sepsis 006 - Management part 1 (care bundles and culture)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Consultant paediatricians Dr Sachin Mannikar and Dr Emma Lim consider what you can do to save a child's life when faced with sepsis. They examine what...

Paediatric sepsis 005 - Penicillin allergy, real or no real?

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Consultant and Associate Lecturer in Paediatric Immunology and Allergy Dr Louise Michaelis joins Emma Lim to discuss penicillin allergy and sepsis. Th...

Paediatric sepsis 004 - Sepsis and the child with complex care needs

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Emma is joined by Monica Parker, Caroline Wild and Karen Horridge in considering the parent experience and sepsis and children with complex care needs...

Paediatric sepsis 003 - Bugs and drugs (part 2)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of bugs and drugs considers NICE guidelines, delivering bundles of care, empirical antibiotic choices and antibiotic stewardship.  

Paediatric sepsis 002 - Bugs and drugs (part 1)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Riordan and Lucia Pareja-Cebrian join Emma to consider what sepsis investigations to undertake and why you need to give antibiotics in one hour...

Paediatric sepsis 001 - Let's talk about sepsis

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Lim and junior doctor Monica Parker talk about what sepsis actually is, the importance of early diagnosis and why sepsis is so hard to spot in ch...