Measurement and performance

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RCPCH Invited Reviews Service - how a review can help and our processes

The Invited Reviews Service delivers clinically led peer reviews to healthcare organisations when they need independent, objective expert advice and external assurance on the clinical services and quality of care they provide. Invited Reviews aim to provide a safe space for active listening, and...
Community services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Knowledge and skills
Paediatric sub-specialty
Patient involvement
Quality improvement
Service design
Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services
Facing the Future - emergency care
Integrated care
Invited reviews
Measurement and performance
Models of care
Service planning
News

Paediatricians launch landmark report on gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorders facing children and young people

16 December 2021
Children and young people around the four countries of the UK with gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorders face a wide variation of support when it comes to getting out of hours or 24/7 emergency care says the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPHGA...
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About the RCPCH Invited Reviews Service

Invited reviews provide healthcare organisations with an opportunity to adopt a proactive approach in seeking assurances on care provided, address areas of concern and identify scope for quality improvement from a team of independent, expert peer reviewers. They support, but do not replace the p...
Community services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Patient involvement
Service design
Integrated care
Invited reviews
Measurement and performance
Models of care
Service planning
Resource

Facing the Future - standards for acute general paediatric services

It is essential that paediatrics is a 24 hours a day, seven days a week specialty, with the most experienced doctors present at the busiest times. Our report sets out ten standards for high quality, safe and sustainable acute general paediatric services.
Area of medicine
General paediatrics
Service design
Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services
Measurement and performance
Models of care
Service planning
Workforce
News

More resource needed or we’ll ‘burn out’ and services will become more unsafe say children’s doctors

25 April 2018
Additional resourcing of children’s health services is urgently needed as a new report highlights the daily struggle hospitals face to meet standards that provide children with high quality, safe and consistent healthcare.