The Paediatrics 2040 report is the brainchild of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health president, Professor Russell Viner, who is just completing his term of office.
He wanted to set up a process whereby paediatricians could examine what needed to happen to ensure that children and young people receive the best possible care and outcomes in 2040.
The report covers four specific areas: data and evidence, impact of innovation, working lives and models of care. The first two work streams inform the latter two.
Predicting the future is fraught with difficulty but the evidence is relatively clear that the continued impact of poverty and inequality on children will create unsustainable healthcare demand, particularly for infants, regardless of the current hiatus in children’s emergency care due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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