Updates
Multi-site clinical audit funding
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has
announced another round of funding and calls for submissions of
topics to support the development of multi-site clinical audits.
Please email the
Clinical Standards team if you would like advice on completing
the form. (Update 9 Mar)
Find out more about HQIP funding for
clinical audit
Clinical Standards at RCPCH Annual Conference 2010
Find out more about the Clinical Standards programme at the
RCPCH Annual Conference in Warwick - 20-22 April, 2010.
Making Audit Count - Guidance and Implementation
workshop - 20 April, 2-4pm
Do you want to learn more about carrying out an audit well,
implementation and changing practice? Come along to the workshop to
find out more. You can book your place when you
register for the
conference or by
emailing the
Clinical Standards team.
Clinical Guidelines sessions - 21 and 22 April, 8am and
lunchtime
Listen to experts in the field presenting
on NICE guidelines in child health:
- When to suspect child maltreatment - key messages
- Diarrhoea and vomiting - key messages
- Coeliac disease - key messages
- Head injury session - implementation
Clinical Standards & Audit stand
Visit stand number 30 in the Exhibitor's Hall to find out more
about the College's national audits, consultations on guidance in
development, and guideline appraisal and endorsement programme -
and how you can get involved. (Update 4
Mar)
Register now for the
RCPCH Annual Conference.
NHS Evidence Accreditation
The NHS Evidence draft accreditation report for the Royal
College of Paediatrics and Child Health has been issued for
public consultation until 17 March and is available to
download from the
NHS Evidence consultations page.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's
Centres for Public Health Excellence and Interventional Procedures,
as well as the MHRA Drug Safety Updates, have been approved under
the NHS Evidence Accreditation scheme and will now display the NHS
Accreditation mark. Further information is available from the
NHS Evidence website. (Update 15
Feb)
Decreased Consciousness Multi-Site Audit
RCPCH are planning to carry out a multi-site audit of the
Paediatric A&E Research group's guideline on the management of
a child with decreased conscious level, which is endorsed by the
College. If you or your unit would like to get involved, please
visit our Decreased
Consciousness Audit page. (Update 4
Feb)
Appraised Guidelines
The College's Clinical Standards team and Clinical Standards
Committee appraise national and regional guidelines relevant to
paediatric care. Evidence based guidelines that meet the College's
standards are endorsed.
The College has recently endorsed the following guidelines
(updated Jan 2010):
To find out more about our guideline
appraisal process, and to see all guidelines endorsed by the
College, please visit our Appraised guidelines page.
Current
Consultations
The College is currently consulting on the following clinical
guidelines and other pieces of guidance (updated 9
Mar):
- NICE Caesarean section
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) Congenital anomaly system
review
- NICE Crohn's disease
- DH Implementation of "generic substitution" in primary
care
- Investigations in sudden and unexpected postnatal collapse
- NICE/SCIE Looked after children
- NICE Personal, social and health education focusing on sex and
relationships and alcohol education
- NICE Pregnancy and complex social factors
- NICE Technology appraisals appeal process
- UK National Screening Committee / NHS Newborn & Physical
Examination Programme: Use of hip ultrasound
- NICE Weight management in pregnancy and after childbirth
- NICE Aripiprazole for the treatment of schizophrenia in people
aged 15-17
To find out more details about our current
consultations, please visit our
Get involved
page (member login required).
Audit
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College members to carry out clinical audits and to scope and
implement national audits.
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