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Care pathways for common acute conditions - Luton and Dunstable Hospital

This page provides a best practice example for standard 10 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which describes the clinical assessment tools used in Luton as common pathways for conditions in emergency care. The tools have been embedded in practice to increase confidence in cl...

Emergency Department

Community services

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Integrated care

Models of care

Service planning

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Case studies for children and young people's engagement

Are you a paediatrician in the community, an acute setting or a specialist service? Are you a nurse, allied healthcare professional in a local surgery, hospital, community setting or working one-to-one with children and young people and want to know more about engagement, participation or involving ...

Children and young people's voice

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Data protection and confidentiality policy

This policy outlines how the College complies with UK Data Protection legislation.

Governance and regulation

Membership

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Epilepsy12 &Us - voices from the RCPCH &Us network

Children and young people told us about their experiences of epilepsy care in our "clinic chats" - how they want to get in touch with services, the kind of support they want to receive, their best experiences and their ideas for the future. We worked with our Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates to produce a ...

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Patient experience

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GP streaming and impact on patient flow in the ED - winter pressures case study

Dr Michael McCarron, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Grid Registrar (ST8) from Sheffield Children’s Hospital, outlines the introduction of a GP streaming model and its impact on patient flow through the emergency department.

Emergency Department

Service design

Winter planning

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Introducing point of care diagnostics - winter pressures case study

Dr John Criddle from the Evelina London Children’s Hospital describes the introduction of point of care diagnostics in the paediatric emergency department (PED) and its impact on patient flow.

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Measures to address winter pressures such as a dedicated registrar and PDU cubicles - case study

Dr Amitabh Gite, Clinical Director of Paediatrics at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, outlines measures they implemented to address winter pressures, including a second registrar at night, a paediatric decision unit, increased nursing staff and ward clerk support.

Care setting

Emergency Department

Knowledge and skills

Clinical guidelines and standards

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RCPCH and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - Member and volunteer data

In our first 'Working for change'' report in 2021 we committed to annually reporting on EDI data held for our members and staff, along with aggregated disclosure rates relating to protected characteristics. We have collated this data on this page, including records held up to January 2023. We'll upd...

Data

Volunteering

Membership

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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RCPCH Member survey 2020 - findings

This autumn we invited all members to complete our survey to find out your thoughts on our benefits and advocacy work, your working lives and wellbeing, as well as how we're doing on equality, diversity and inclusion. Find our key findings below, and scroll down to download the full report.

Membership

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Wellbeing for health professionals

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RCPCH Member survey 2021 - findings

In autumn 2021 we invited all members to complete our survey to get your views on how the College should tackle key issues such as workforce shortages, climate change and paediatric recruitment. Find our key findings here, and scroll down to download the full report.

Membership

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Care pathways for common acute conditions - Luton and Dunstable Hospital

Case studies for children and young people's engagement

Data protection and confidentiality policy

Epilepsy12 &Us - voices from the RCPCH &Us network

GP streaming and impact on patient flow in the ED - winter pressures case study

Introducing point of care diagnostics - winter pressures case study

Measures to address winter pressures such as a dedicated registrar and PDU cubicles - case study

RCPCH and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) - Member and volunteer data

RCPCH Member survey 2020 - findings

RCPCH Member survey 2021 - findings

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