We work in partnership with national and charitable bodies, paediatric sub-specialty groups, paediatricians, clinical managers and networks - as well as children, young people and their families - to drive improvements in paediatrics services. Our QI programmes, including the National Diabetes Quality Programme, Epilepsy QI Programme and Medicines for Children, aim to support clinical improvement at both local and national levels.
We also support our members and the wider child health workforce to be at the forefront of continuous quality improvement through the online sharing hub QI Central, providing opportunities and resources to develop and share QI work and co-produce solutions with children and young people, and their families.
You can find out more on our QI and patient safety pages.
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RCPCH EQIP: Innovations to improve care for paediatric epilepsy patients
09 June 2023
Birmingham
Join us to hear from teams participting in our Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme (EQIP). You'll learn how they've used QI to make incremental changes in their service, how they have adapted under the ongoing pressures of the pandemic.
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Medicines for Children - information for parents and carers
Our website provides practical and reliable information to parents and carers about giving medicines to their child - with free access to information leaflets on over 200 medicines, videos and news.
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Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) - developing a standardised system for England
We are collaborating with NHS England and the Royal College of Nursing to develop a single national PEWS for England.
Led by the NHS England Children and Young People’s Transformation Team, the System-wide Paediatric Observations Tracking (SPOT) programme launched in 2020, with a programme of re...
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RCPCH EQIP - Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme
In June 2019 we launched EQIP, the first paediatric epilepsy QI collaborative in England and Wales, supporting epilepsy service teams to identify sustainable improvements within their services for children and young people with epilepsy.
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Safe system framework for children at risk of deterioration
This framework aims to improve recognising and responding to children at risk of deterioration. A safer system can work in partnership with families and patients, develop a patient safety culture and support ongoing learning.
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S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 3 - From reaction to anticipation
Bringing the work of the previous modules, we can now look to implement one of the core S.A.F.E interventions, the huddle. This really embeds situation awareness on the ward. It embodies open communication of the current situation, including identification of the sickest patients as well as those wh...
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S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 2 - Theories of patient safety and application to the programme
In our second module, we look at the theories that underpin the development of a patient safety culture, including some tools and techniques for assessing your culture and working to improve it.
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S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 1 - Translating quality improvement into action
Quality improvement (QI) is a process that aims to continually improve the outcomes for children and their parents when they engage with healthcare. QI is the responsibility of all who engage in healthcare.
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Situation Awareness for Everyone (S.A.F.E) toolkit- introduction
How can we reduce preventable deaths and error in children's hospitals? We worked with 50 sites over four years on the S.A.F.E. programme to develop and trial quality improvement techniques. This toolkit supports child health professionals to use these principles at their sites. It can help improve ...
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Quality improvement resources
The RCPCH QIPS Forum and QI team work closely with external partners, including the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges (AoRMC), National Quality Improvement & Clinical Audit Network (NQICAN) and NHS Improvement, leading together on key developments in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in paediat...