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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.

Drugs and medicines

Patient information

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Meds IQ - sharing QI resources for paediatric medicines safety

Medication errors are a significant but preventable cause of harm to children and young people. Meds IQ brings together quality improvement (QI) tools and improvement projects that have been developed to address this problem. This is part of QI Central, our quality improvement sharing platform, whic...

Drugs and medicines

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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Medusa - injectable medicines guide

Medusa provides guidance on the preparation and administration of injectable medicines in adult and paediatric clinical areas with links, if appropriate, to local practice guidelines. It contains over 400 monographs for medicines given via the intravenous (IV) route.

Drugs and medicines

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Mental Health Workforce Plan for Health and Social Care (Wales) consultation response

In March 2022 we responded to the Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) Mental Health Workforce Plan for Health and Social Care consultation. This page has a summary, with our full response in the Downloads box.

Wellbeing for children and young people

Workforce

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Modernising medical careers cohort study (2008 to 2016)

The College is following the 2007 cohort of paediatric trainees throughout their training career. This represents a major opportunity to assess the aspirations and progress of a unique group, and feed vital information into the workforce planning process. You can download full reports from all parts...

Workforce

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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 (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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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) spotlight audit reports

Our spotlight audits are aimed at providing context to the findings of the NPDA national reports. They provide insight into everyday practice and explore how this may be related to outcome. The spotlight audits do not, for the most part, measure practice against any particular set of standards but s...

Diabetes

Workforce

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NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan - evidence and advocacy

NHS England published the Long Term Workforce Plan in July 2023. RCPCH calls on stakeholders to begin a programme of work that more appropriately reflects the needs of children and young people. We invite members to download and customise our guide to help advocate for paediatric services in your ar...

Workforce

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NHS Long Term Plan - A summary of child health proposals

We’re pleased to see infants, children and young people placed front and centre of the NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019. The Plan contains a number of measures which will, if implemented, make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of children and help to achieve our vision for t...

Oral health

Autism

Learning disability or learning difficulty