Quality improvement

The Summer Meeting will be hosted by Dr Rebecca Goldman. We'll have four guest speakers for the Hot Topics session. Abstract submissions are now closed.

It is not enough to collect data on harm occurring to children in healthcare settings. We need the data to be robust, comparable across the NHS and for it to be transformed into effective, meaningful changes in outcome. In this episode, we speak with Professor Damian Roland.

The National Neonatal Audit Programme team hosted this short webinar to support those entering and quality assuring their NNAP data. It was an opportunity to learn more about why we ask units to validate their data for certain metrics and how this can be done. There is also a Q&A session towards the...

On 4 October 2023 the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) held its annual conference. Although we planned to deliver this as a hybrid event, it was fully virtual due to transport issues. Delegates had the opportunity to listen to experts in the field and neonatal teams involved in quality impro...

This week the Patient Safety Commissioner wrote to Health Secretary, Steve Barclay outlining her recommendations for Martha’s Rule.

Paediatricians and other child health professionals based in England can now start transitioning towards using the new inpatient Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) chart which has been released by NHS England for use today.

This report summarises the key messages and national recommendations developed by consensus by the NNAP Project Board and Methodology and Dataset Group, based on NNAP data relating to babies discharged from neonatal care in England and Wales between 1 January and 31 December 2022 and Scotland betwee...

The sixth annual Epilepsy12 and Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks (OPEN UK) national conference took place on Wednesday 27 September 2023. You can find conference resources and more information about the event on this page.

This Symposium was hosted by Dr Umair Khan and in collaboration with RCPE, RCPSG, RCPCH and SACCH. The meeting featured six clinical case and six QI/audit/research presentations as well as two guest speakers.

We have been recommissioned by NHS England to continue offering quality improvement training to paediatric epilepsy teams until August 2024. We're now inviting registrations of interest.