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.

Recent content

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) - parents and carers reports

Our summary booklets for parents and carers include findings from our national reports. You'll find useful information about the key healthcare checks that your child should receive and important information about clinic outcomes.

Intensive care medicine

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit - our publications

These are the publications, abstracts and presentations that have been published or presented by members involved with the NPDA audit as authors, co-authors and collaborators, on our behalf. You can access these online while some are available for download at the bottom of the page.

Endocrinology

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) Hospital admissions and complications reports 2011-2020

The NPDA admission reports summarise acute emergency hospital admissions where the primary diagnosis is related to diabetes in children and young people cared for in Paediatric Diabetes Units (PDUs) in England and Wales.

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Epilepsy Passport

This downloadable paper record gives essential up-to-date information about a child or young person’s epilepsy. This includes their emergency care plan, medication history and key professional contacts.

Neurology

Epilepsy

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NNAP/NDAU Collaborators’ meeting 2017 - presentations

This meeting took place on 24 April 2017 at the Studio in Birmingham. Over 100 people attended the event, including parents, multi-disciplinary neonatal unit staff members, neonatal network representatives.

Child and adolescent mortality

Intensive care medicine

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Using quality improvement methodology to reduce central line associated blood stream infections - a case study for NNAP

This case study was included in the 2017 National Neonatal Audit Programme annual report to highlight how a neonatal unit has used its results from the National Neonatal Audit Programme as a basis to identify and implement local quality improvement activities. You can download full case study below.

Child and adolescent mortality

Intensive care medicine

Neonatal medicine

Perinatal medicine

Secondary care

Clinical guidelines and standards

Infant

Quality improvement

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Epilepsy12 - national reports from 2009-2014

Rounds one and two of Epilepsy12 ran between 2009 and 2014 with paediatric services across the whole of the UK taking part. You can download reports for both rounds, including the full national reports and versions adapted for parents, carers, children and young people.

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Epilepsy12 audit - submit data for 2018-2022

The current round of Epilepsy12 comprises two main data processing and reporting components - the organisational audit and the clinical audit. This page provides user guides, instructional videos and webinars in support of these two components.

Community child health

Basic page

About the Epilepsy12 audit

Established in 2009, Epilepsy12 has the continued aim of helping epilepsy services, and those who commission health services, to measure and improve the quality of care for children and young people with seizures and epilepsies. Round 4 is underway.

Clinical guidelines and standards

Adolescent health

Infant

Quality improvement

Basic page

About the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit

The NPDA collects information on the care and diabetes outcomes of all children and young people receiving care from paediatric diabetes teams in England and Wales, and reports an annual core dataset. The sole aim is to provide information that leads to an improved quality of care for those child...

Endocrinology

Primary care

Diabetes

Clinical guidelines and standards