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Back to Facing the Future - audit results (2013)

We commit to auditing our standards so we can build a comprehensive picture of paediatric provision across the four nations. This audit covered the first edition of Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services.

Service design

Measurement and performance

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BPSU - 30th anniversary report (2016)

For over 30 years the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit has been facilitating research into childhood rare diseases and disorders. To mark this milestone and to celebrate the Unit's ongoing impact we published our 30 year anniversary report.

BPSU

Rare disease

Research

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Child health in England in 2030: comparisons with other wealthy countries

The health of today’s children and young people (CYP) will be one of the key factors in determining whether England is healthy and prosperous over the next 50 years. In our reports, published October 2018, we used long term historical data on key CYP health outcomes and various projection modelling ...

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Child Health Reviews - UK : Mortality and morbidity in children and young people with epilepsy (2013)

CHR-UK was a UK-wide programme of work, systematically examining mortality and morbidity in children and young people between their 1st and 18th birthdays. This report is a themed review of cases of mortality and morbidity in children and young people with epilepsy at all stages of the care pathway,...

Child and adolescent mortality

Neurology

Epilepsy

Research

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Child Health Reviews - UK : Retrospective epidemiological review of all-cause mortality

CHR-UK was a UK-wide programme of work, systematically examining mortality and morbidity in children and young people between their 1st and 18th birthdays. This report is a retrospective epidemiological review of all-cause mortality in the four nations of the UK.

Child and adolescent mortality

Research

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Education and training research

We undertake research related to paediatric education and training, from an educational perspective. This work is undertaken by members of the team often in collaboration with RCPCH officers, exam leads, paediatric consultants and paediatric trainees.

Examinations

Paediatric training

Research

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Epilepsy12 National Organisational Audit Report 2018

This is the first formal output of Round 3 of the Epilepsy12 audit. It describes the organisation of paediatric epilepsy services for children and young people in England and Wales, as at April 2018. It shows improvements in some areas, including numbers of epilepsy nurse specialists and paediatrici...

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Facing the Future audit 2017 - on standards in acute paediatrics and care outside hospital

We commit to auditing our standards so we can build a comprehensive picture of paediatric provision across the four nations. You can download our report below.

Service design

Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Measurement and performance

Service planning

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Facing the Future: Standards for children and young people in emergency care settings - audit findings

This is a summary of audit findings reported by 91 emergency departments from 2018 to early 2020, based on our Facing the Future standards in emergency care settings, which were published in 2018. These audit findings provide an insight into how emergency care settings were delivering services a...

Emergency medicine

Emergency Department

Service design

Facing the Future - emergency care

Workforce

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Growing up with diabetes: children and young people in England - research report (2009)

Caring for children and young people with diabetes involves a complex process of care provision. Accurate, up-to-date knowledge is crucial to the planning and delivery of best quality health care. This report sets out the findings of a working group established to survey the number of children and y...

Endocrinology

Diabetes

Research

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Back to Facing the Future - audit results (2013)

BPSU - 30th anniversary report (2016)

Child health in England in 2030: comparisons with other wealthy countries

Child Health Reviews - UK : Mortality and morbidity in children and young people with epilepsy (2013)

Child Health Reviews - UK : Retrospective epidemiological review of all-cause mortality

Education and training research

Epilepsy12 National Organisational Audit Report 2018

Facing the Future audit 2017 - on standards in acute paediatrics and care outside hospital

Facing the Future: Standards for children and young people in emergency care settings - audit findings

Growing up with diabetes: children and young people in England - research report (2009)

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