Audits team

Our activities include evaluating the implementation of professional standards and national guidance through clinical audit and highlighting variation to support clinical improvement at local, regional and national levels.

We work in partnership with charitable and professional bodies, as well as children, young people, parents and carers with our RCPCH &Us programme.

We are currently commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to deliver three national clinical audits as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP):

Additionally, in collaboration with College affiliated specialty groups, we deliver national audits of quality standards:

If you would like to be notified of future audits being delivered by the RCPCH, or have any queries, please contact auditteam@rcpch.ac.uk with your details. 

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National Neonatal Audit Programme - Data dashboard

This clinical audit, commissioned by HQIP, aims to improve care to babies admitted to a neonatal unit in England, Scotland and Wales. Our interactive dashboard shows data on our 10 performance metrics and is updated on a quarterly basis. The link to the dashboard is below.
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Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates awarded the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award 2023 by HQIP

On 20 June 2023, the Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates were announced as joint winners of the Patient and Public Involvement Hero Award by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). The award is one of five Clinical Audit Heroes Awards that are announced during the 2023 Clinical Audit Awareness...
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NNAP Healthcare Improvement Strategy

The overarching aim of this strategy is to assess whether babies admitted to neonatal units in England, Wales and Scotland receive consistent, high quality care in relation to the NNAP audit measures, which are aligned to a set of professionally agreed guidelines and standards, to identify areas for...