The Guideline Directory contains a full list of paediatric guidelines published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), as well as those from other Royal Colleges or paediatric specialty groups which meet the standards for RCPCH endorsement.
Last modified
28 August 2024
Post date
29 May 2020
Table of contents
- Recently published
- ADHD
- Alcohol-related disorders
- Allergy, immunology and infectious disease
- Antenatal care
- Antibiotics
- Antimicrobial
- Asthma
- Attachment
- Audiology
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Back pain
- Bipolar disorder
- Bronchiolitis
- Cerebral palsy
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Cleft palate
- Coeliac disease
- Conduct disorder and antisocial behaviour
- Constipation
- CPR
- Cystic fibrosis
- Dental
- Depression
- Dermatology
- Development
- Diabetes
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Donor breastmilk
- Early years
- Eating disorders
- Eczema
- Emergency medicine
- End of life care
- Endocrinology
- Epilepsy
- Fever
- Fractures
- Gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition
- General paediatrics
- Genetic and metabolic disorders
- Haematology
- Head injury
- Headache
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hypercholesterolaemia (familial)
- Infection prevention
- Infectious diseases
- Infective endocarditis
- Injury prevention
- Intensive care
- Intravenous fluids
- Jaundice
- Learning disabilities
- Meningitis / meningococcal sepsis
- Menstrual bleeding
- Mental health
- Musculoskeletal
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
- Neurology and neurodisability
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Oncology and haematology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pain
- Palliative care
- Personality disorder
- Pharmacology
- Pollution
- Postnatal care
- Pressure ulcers
- Psychosis
- PTSD
- Public health
- Respiratory
- Safeguarding
- Sedation
- Self-harm
- Sepsis
- Sexual abuse
- Sexualised behaviour
- Sickle cell disease
- Smoking
- Spasticity
- Spinal injury
- Stroke
- Substance misuse
- Surgery
- Transition to adult services
- Transplantation
- Tuberculosis
- Urology
Searchable by paediatric condition and specialty areas, the Guideline Directory contains quick links to national clinical guidelines.
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Recently published
- Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management (NICE NG51, updated 2024)
- Adrenal insufficiency: identification and management (NICE NG243, 2024)
- Neonatal infection (NICE QS75, 2024) - RCPCH formal support
- Epilepsies in children, young people and adults (NICE QS211, 2023) - RCPCH formal support
- Initial management of IgA vasculitis (Henoch Schönlein Purpura) in children and young people (UKKA, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Occupational therapy and play (RCOT, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal disease: recognition, diagnosis and management (NICE, NG204, published 2024)
- Vitamin B12 deficiency in over 16s: diagnosis and management (NICE NG293, 2024)
ADHD
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (NICE QS39, updated 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management (NICE NG87, updated 2019)
Alcohol-related disorders
- Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis and management of physical complications (NICE CG100, updated 2017)
- Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis, assessment and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence (NICE CG115, reviewed 2019)
- Children and young people exposed prenatally to alcohol (SIGN 156, 2019)
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (NICE QS204, 2022)
Allergy, immunology and infectious disease
- Anaphylaxis: assessment and referral after emergency treatment (NICE CG134, reviewed 2016)
- Adrenal insufficiency: identification and management (NICE NG243, 2024)
- Antimicrobial stewardship (NICE QS121, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use (NICE NG15, 2015)
- Atopic eczema in under 12s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG57, updated 2023)
- Drug allergy (NICE QS97, 2015)
- Fever in under 5s (NICE QS64, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management (NICE NG143, updated 2021)
- Flu vaccination: increasing uptake (NICE NG103, 2018)
- Flu vaccination: increasing uptake (NICE QS190, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Food allergy (NICE QS118, 2016)
- Food allergy in under 19s: assessment and diagnosis (NICE CG116, reviewed 2018)
- Vaccine uptake in the general population (NICE NG218, updated 2022)
- Hepatitis B (chronic): diagnosis and management (NICE CG165, updated 2017)
- Management of atopic eczema in primary care 8a (NICE PH21, updated 2017)
- (SIGN 125, 2011)
- Management of hepatitis C (SIGN 133, 2013)
- Sinusitis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG79, 2017)
- Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people (NICE QS19, 2012) - RCPCH formal support
- Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in under 16s: recognition, diagnosis and management (NICE CG102, reviewed 2018)
- Paediatrics allergy action care plans (BSACI, updated 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis: antimicrobial prophylaxis against infective endocarditis in adults and children undergoing interventional procedures (NICE CG64, updated 2016)
- Pyelonephritis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG111, 2018)
- Surgical site infections: prevention and treatment (NICE NG125, 2020)
- Vaccine uptake in under 19s (NICE QS145, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
Antenatal care
Antibiotics
- Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (NICE NG195, updated March 2024)
- Neonatal infection (NICE QS75, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
Antimicrobial
- Antimicrobial stewardship (NICE QS121, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use (NICE NG15, 2015)
- Cellulitis and erysipelas: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG141, 2019)
- Clostridioides difficile infection: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG199, 2021)
- Human and animal bites: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG184, 2020)
- Impetigo: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG153, 2020)
- Insect bites and stings: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG182, 2020)
- Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis: antimicrobial prophylaxis against infective endocarditis in adults and children undergoing interventional procedures (NICE CG64, updated 2016)
- Pyelonephritis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG111, 2018)
- Sinusitis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG79, 2017)
- Neonatal infection (NICE QS75, 2024)
- Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (NICE NG195, 2021)
- Otitis media (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG91, updated 2022)
Asthma
- Asthma (NICE QS25, updated 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (NICE NG80, updated 2021)
- British guideline on the management of asthma (SIGN 158, updated 2019)
Attachment
- Children’s attachment: attachment in children and young people who are adopted from care, in care or at high risk of going into care (NICE NG26, 2015)
- Children's attachment (NICE QS133, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
Audiology
- Otitis media (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG91, updated 2022)
- Otitis media with effusion in under 12s (NICE NG233, 2023)
- Tinnitus: assessment and management (NICE NG155, 2020)
Autism spectrum disorders
- Assessment, diagnosis and interventions for autism spectrum disorders (SIGN 145, 2016)
- Autism (NICE QS51, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recognition, referral and diagnosis (NICE CG128, updated 2021)
- Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: support and management (NICE CG170, updated 2021
Back pain
- Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s (NICE QS155, 2017)
- Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management (NICE NG59, updated 2020)
Bipolar disorder
- Bipolar disorder: assessment and management (NICE CG185, updated 2020)
- Bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (NICE QS102, 2015)
Bronchiolitis
- Bronchiolitis in children (NICE QS122, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Bronchiolitis in children: diagnosis and management (NICE NG9, updated 2021)
Cerebral palsy
- Cerebral palsy in children and young people (NICE QS162, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Cerebral palsy in under 25s: assessment and management (NICE NG62, 2017)
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Cleft palate
- Palate examination: identification of cleft palate in the newborn - best practice guide (RCPCH, 2015, in process of updating)
Coeliac disease
- Coeliac disease (NICE QS134, 2016)
- Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management (NICE NG20, reviewed 2019)
Conduct disorder and antisocial behaviour
- Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people (NICE QS59, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people: recognition and management (NICE CG158, updated 2017)
Constipation
- Constipation in children and young people (NICE QS62, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Constipation in children and young people: diagnosis and management (NICE CG99, updated 2017)
CPR
- Quality standards for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and training (RESUS Council, updated 2018) - RCPCH formal support
Cystic fibrosis
- Cystic fibrosis (NICE QS168, 2018)
- Cystic fibrosis: diagnosis and management (NICE NG78, 2017)
- Guidelines for the performance of the sweat test for the investigation of cystic fibrosis in the UK (Cystic Fibrosis Trust, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
Dental
Depression
- Depression in children and young people (NICE QS48, 2013) - RCPCH formal support
- Depression in children and young people: identification and management (NICE NG134, updated 2019)
Dermatology
- Acne vulgaris: management (NICE NG198, 2021)
- Cellulitis and erysipelas: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG141, 2019)
- Impetigo: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG153, 2020)
- Insect bites and stings: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG182, 2020)
- Psoriasis: assessment and management (NICE CG153, updated 2017)
- Secondary bacterial infection of eczema and other common skin conditions: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG190, 2021)
Development
- Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm (NICE NG72, 2017)
- Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm (NICE QS169, 2018) - RCPCH formal support
Diabetes
- Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management (NICE NG18, updated 2023)
- Diabetes in children and young people (NICE QS125, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period (NICE NG3, updated 2020)
- Diabetes in pregnancy (NICE QS109, updated 2023) - RCPCH formal support
- Diabetic foot problems: prevention and management (NICE NG19, updated 2023)
- Management of diabetes (SIGN 116 and 154, updated 2017)
Diarrhoea and vomiting
Donor breastmilk
Early years
- Early years: promoting health and wellbeing in under 5s (NICE QS128, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
Eating disorders
- Eating disorders (NICE QS175, 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Eating disorders: recognition and treatment (NICE NG69, updated 2020)
- Medical emergencies in eating disorders: guidance on recognition and management (RCPSYCH, 2022) - RCPCH formal endorsement
Eczema
- Atopic eczema in under 12s (NICE QS44, 2013) - RCPCH formal support
- Atopic eczema in under 12s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG57, updated 2023)
- Management of atopic eczema in primary care (SIGN 125, 2011)
- Secondary bacterial infection of eczema and other common skin conditions: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG190, 2021)
Emergency medicine
- Human and animal bites: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG184, 2020)
- Major trauma: assessment and initial management (NICE NG39, 2016)
- Major trauma: service delivery (NICE NG40, 2016)
- Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral (NICE QS198, 2021) - RCPCH formal support
- Trauma (NICE QS166, 2018)
End of life care
- End of life care for infants, children and young people (NICE QS160, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management (NICE NG61, updated 2019)
Endocrinology
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (NICE NG191, 2024)
- Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management (NICE NG18, updated 2020)
- Diabetes in children and young people (NICE QS125, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period (NICE NG3, updated 2020)
- Diabetic foot problems: prevention and management (NICE NG19, updated 2019)
- Faltering growth (NICE QS197, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Faltering growth: recognition and management of faltering growth in children (NICE NG75, 2017)
- Familial hypercholesterolaemia: identification and management (NICE CG71, updated 2019)
- Guidelines for the management of children and young people (CYP) aged <19 years with Craniopharyngioma (CCLG, 2021) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Investigation and management of Idiopathic thickened pituitary stalk (iTPS) and/or idiopathic central diabetes insipidus (CDI) (CCLG 2021)
- Management of diabetes (SIGN 116 and 154, updated 2017)
- Obesity in children and young people: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes (NICE QS94, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Obesity prevention (NICE CG43, updated 2015)
- Obesity: clinical assessment and management (NICE QS127, 2016)
- Obesity: identification, assessment and management (NICE CG189, reviewed 2018)
- Thyroid disease: assessment and management (NICE NG145, 2019)
- Thyroid disorders in children and young people with down syndrome: surveillance and when to initiate treatment (DSMIG, 2020) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Paediatric differentiated thyroid carcinoma: UK National Clinical Practice Consensus Guideline (CCLG, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Vitamin D: supplement use in specific population groups (NICE PH56, updated 2017)
Epilepsy
- Epilepsies in children, young people and adults (NICE NG217, 2022)
- Epilepsies in children, young people and adults (NICE QS211, 2023) - RCPCH formal support
Fever
- Fever in under 5s (NICE QS64, 2022) - RCPCH formal support
- Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management (NICE NG143, updated 2021)
Fractures
- Fractures (complex): assessment and management (NICE NG37, updated 2022)
- Fractures (non-complex): assessment and management (NICE NG38, 2018)
Gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition
- Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis and management of physical complications (NICE CG100, updated 2017)
- Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis, assessment and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence (NICE CG115, reviewed 2019)
- Cannabis-based medicinal products (NICE NG144, updated 2021)
- Children and young people exposed prenatally to alcohol (SIGN 156, 2019)
- Children’s continence commissioning guide: a handbook for the commissioning and running of children’s community continence services (The Paediatric Continence Forum, Update 2019) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Clostridioides difficile infection: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG199, 2021)
- Coeliac disease (NICE QS134, 2016)
- Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management (NICE NG20, reviewed 2019)
- Constipation in children and young people (NICE QS62, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Constipation in children and young people: diagnosis and management (NICE CG99, updated 2017)
- Crohn’s disease: management (NICE NG129, updated 2019)
- Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis in under 5s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG84, reviewed 2018)
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in children and young people: diagnosis and management (NICE NG1, updated 2019)
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux in children and young people (NICE QS112, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Liver disease (NICE QS152, 2017)
- Maternal and child nutrition (NICE QS98, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Pancreatitis (NICE NG104, updated 2020)
- Ulcerative colitis: management (NICE NG130, 2019)
General paediatrics
- Acne vulgaris: management (NICE NG198, 2021)
- Babies, children and young people's experience of healthcare (NICE NG204, 2021)
- Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions (NICE NG183, 2020)
- Cannabis-based medicinal products (NICE NG144, updated 2021)
- Cellulitis and erysipelas: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG141, 2019)
- Children’s continence commissioning guide: a handbook for the commissioning and running of children’s community continence services (The Paediatric Continence Forum, Update 2019) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Heavy menstrual bleeding (NICE QS47, 2020)
- Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management (NICE NG88, updated 2021)
- Impetigo: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG153, 2020)
- Occupational therapy and play (RCOT, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Suicide prevention (NICE QS189, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Thyroid disease: assessment and management (NICE NG145, 2019)
- Ulcerative colitis: management (NICE NG130, 2019)
Genetic and metabolic disorders
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Thyroid disorders in children and young people with down syndrome: surveillance and when to initiate treatment (DSMIG, 2020) - RCPCH formal endorsement
Haematology
Head injury
- Abusive head trauma and the eye in infancy (RCPCH-RCOphth, 2024) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Head injury (NICE QS74, 2023) - RCPCH formal support
- Head injury: assessment and early management (NICE NG232, updated 2023)
Headache
- Headaches in over 12s (NICE QS42, 2013) - RCPCH formal support
- Headaches in over 12s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG150, reviewed 2021)
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hypercholesterolaemia (familial)
Infection prevention
- Flu vaccination: increasing uptake (NICE NG103, 2018)
- Flu vaccination: increasing uptake (NICE QS190, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care (NICE CG139, updated 2017)
- Prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease (RCOG, 2017) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Sinusitis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG79, 2017)
- Surgical site infections: prevention and treatment (NICE NG125, 2020)
- Vaccine uptake in under 19s (NICE QS145, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
Infectious diseases
- Clostridioides difficile infection: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG199, 2021)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (NICE NG191, 2024)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (NICE NG188, 2024)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism in over 16s with COVID-19 (NICE NG186, 2020)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: vitamin D (NICE NG187, 2020)
- Hepatitis B (chronic): diagnosis and management (NICE CG165, updated 2017)
- Human and animal bites: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG184, 2020)
- Insect bites and stings: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG182, 2020)
- Lyme disease (NICE NG95, updated 2018)
- Lyme disease (NICE QS186, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Management of hepatitis C (SIGN 133, 2013)
- Secondary bacterial infection of eczema and other common skin conditions: antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG190, 2021)
Infective endocarditis
Injury prevention
- Preventing unintentional injury in under 15s (NICE QS107, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
Intensive care
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (NICE NG191, 2024)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (NICE NG188, 2024)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism in over 16s with COVID-19 (NICE NG186, 2020)
Intravenous fluids
- Intravenous fluid therapy in children and young people in hospital (NICE NG29, 2015)
- Intravenous fluid therapy in children and young people in hospital (NICE QS131, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
Jaundice
- Jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days (NICE CG98, updated 2016)
- Jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days (NICE QS57, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
Learning disabilities
- Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions (NICE NG183, 2020)
- Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges (NICE NG11, 2015)
- Decision-making and mental capacity (NICE QS194, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery (NICE NG93, 2018)
- Learning disability: behaviour that challenges (NICE QS101, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
Meningitis / meningococcal sepsis
- Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal disease: recognition, diagnosis and management (NICE NG240, 2024)
- Sepsis (NICE QS161, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management (NICE NG51, updated 2017)
Menstrual bleeding
- Heavy menstrual bleeding (NICE QS47, 2020)
- Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management (NICE NG88, updated 2021)
Mental health
- Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance (NICE CG193, updated 2020)
- Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people (NICE QS59, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people: recognition and management (NICE CG158, updated 2017)
- Antisocial personality disorder: prevention and management (NICE CG77, reviewed 2018)
- Bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (NICE QS102, 2015)
- Bipolar disorder: assessment and management (NICE CG185, updated 2020)
- Borderline personality disorder: recognition and management (NICE CG78, reviewed 2018)
- Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges (NICE NG11, 2015)
- Children’s attachment: attachment in children and young people who are adopted from care, in care or at high risk of going into care (NICE NG26, 2015)
- Coexisting severe mental illness (psychosis) and substance misuse: assessment and management in healthcare settings (NICE CG120, reviewed 2016)
- Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse (NICE QS188, 2019)
- Decision-making and mental capacity (NICE QS194, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Depression in children and young people (NICE QS48, reviewed 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Depression in children and young people: identification and management (NICE NG134, 2019)
- Drug misuse in over 16s: opioid detoxification (NICE CG52, reviewed 2019)
- Drug misuse in over 16s: psychosocial interventions (NICE CG51, reviewed 2016)
- Drug misuse prevention (NICE QS165, 2018)
- Eating disorders (NICE QS175, 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Eating disorders: recognition and treatment (NICE NG69, updated 2020)
- Learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery (NICE NG93, 2018)
- Learning disability: behaviour that challenges (NICE QS101, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Personality disorders: borderline and antisocial (NICE QS88, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (NICE NG116, 2018)
- Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people: recognition and management (NICE CG155, updated 2016)
- Self-harm (NICE QS34, 2013)
- Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence (NICE NG225, 2022)
- Suicide prevention (NICE QS189, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings (NICE QS159, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Violent and aggressive behaviours in people with mental health problems (NICE QS154, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
Musculoskeletal
- BTS Quality Standard for Respiratory Management of Children with Neuromuscular Weakness (BTS, 2014) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s (NICE QS155, 2017)
- Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management (NICE NG59, updated 2020)
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)
Neonatology
- Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance (NICE CG192, updated 2020)
- Antenatal care (NICE NG201, 2021)
- Antenatal care (NICE QS22, updated 2021)
- Antenatal care for uncomplicated pregnancies (NICE CG62, updated 2019)
- Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm (NICE NG72, 2017)
- Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm (NICE QS169, 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period (NICE NG3, updated 2020)
- Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants less than two months old (RCPCH, 2015)
- Donor milk banks: service operation (NICE CG93, reviewed 2018)
- Intrapartum care (NICE NG235, 2023)
- Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies (NICE NG121, 2019)
- Intrapartum care: existing medical conditions and obstetric complications (NICE QS192, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days (NICE CG98, updated 2016)
- Jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days (NICE QS57, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (NICE NG195, 2021)
- Neonatal infection (NICE QS75, 2024) - RCPCH formal support
- Neonatal parenteral nutrition (NICE NG154, 2020)
- Neonatal parenteral nutrition (NICE QS205, 2022)
- Occupational therapy in neonatal services and early intervention (RCOT, 2022) - RCPCH formal support
- Palate examination: Identification of cleft palate in the newborn (RCPCH, 2015)
- Postnatal care (NICE QS37, updated 2022)
- Postnatal care (NICE NG194, 2021)
- Practical guidance for the management of palliative care on neonatal units (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Preterm labour and birth (NICE QS135, updated 2019)
- Preterm labour and birth (NICE NG25, updated 2022)
- Prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease (RCOG, 2017) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Retinopathy of prematurity: Screening (RCPCH, 2022)
- Retinopathy of prematurity: Treatment (RCOphth, 2022)
- Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm (NICE NG124, 2019)
- Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm (NICE QS193, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
Nephrology
- Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management (NICE NG148, 2019)
- Acute kidney injury (NICE QS76, updated 2023) - RCPCH formal support
- Bedwetting in children and young people (NICE QS70, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Bedwetting in under 19s (NICE CG111, reviewed 2018)
- Children’s continence commissioning guide: a handbook for the commissioning and running of children’s community continence services (The Paediatric Continence Forum, Update 2019) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management (NICE NG203, 2021)
- Chronic kidney disease: managing anaemia (NICE NG8, reviewed 2017)
- Initial management of IgA vasculitis (Henoch Schönlein Purpura) in children and young people (UKKA, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Renal and ureteric stones: assessment and management (NICE NG118, 2019)
- Renal and ureteric stones (NICE QS195, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Renal replacement therapy and conservative management (NICE NG107, 2018)
- Urinary incontinence in neurological disease: assessment and management (NICE CG148, reviewed 2019)
- Urinary tract infection (catheter-associated): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG113, 2018)
- Urinary tract infection (lower): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG109, 2018)
- Urinary tract infection (recurrent): anitmircobial prescribing (NICE NG112, 2018)
- Urinary tract infection in children and young people (NICE QS36, updated 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG54, updated 2018)
- Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management (NICE NG224, 2022)
Neurology and neurodisability
- Assessment, diagnosis and interventions for autism spectrum disorders (SIGN 145, 2016)
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (NICE QS39, updated 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management (NICE NG87, updated 2019)
- Autism (NICE QS51, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recognition, referral and diagnosis (NICE CG128, updated 2021)
- Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: support and management (NICE CG170, updated 2021
- Brain pathways guideline: a guideline to assist healthcare professionals in the assessment of children who may have a brain tumour (Headsmart, v2 updated 2017)
- Cerebral palsy in children and young people (NICE QS162, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Cerebral palsy in under 25s: assessment and management (NICE NG62, 2017)
- Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges (NICE NG11, 2015)
- Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants less than two months old - clinical guideline (RCPCH, 2015)
- End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management (NICE NG61, updated 2019)
- Epilepsies: diagnosis and management (NICE CG137, updated 2021)
- Epilepsy in children and young people (NICE QS27, 2013) - RCPCH formal support
- Guidelines for the management of children and young people (CYP) aged <19 years with Craniopharyngioma (CCLG, 2021)
- Headaches in over 12s (NICE QS42, 2013) - RCPCH formal support
- Headaches in over 12s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG150, updated 2021)
- Investigation and management of Idiopathic thickened pituitary stalk (iTPS) and/or idiopathic central diabetes insipidus (CDI) (CCLG 2021) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery (NICE NG93, 2018)
- Learning disability: behaviour that challenges (NICE QS101, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Management of children and young people with an acute decrease in conscious level (RCPCH, updated 2019)
- Spasticity in under 19s: management (NICE CG145, updated 2016)
- Stroke and transient ischaemic attack in over 16s: diagnosis and initial management (NICE NG128, 2019)
- Stroke in childhood: clinical guideline for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation (RCPCH, 2017)
- Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral (NICE NG127, 2019)
- Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral (NICE QS198, 2021) - RCPCH formal support
- Urinary incontinence in neurological disease: assessment and management (NICE CG148, reviewed 2019)
Nutrition
- Faltering growth (NICE QS197, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Faltering growth: recognition and management of faltering growth in children (NICE NG75, 2017)
- Maternal and child nutrition (NICE QS98, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Neonatal parenteral nutrition (NICE NG154, 2020)
Obesity
- Obesity in children and young people: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes (NICE QS94, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Obesity prevention (NICE CG43, reviewed 2017)
- Obesity: clinical assessment and management (NICE QS127, 2016)
- Obesity: identification, assessment and management (NICE CG189, updated 2022)
Oncology and haematology
- Brain pathways guideline: a guideline to assist healthcare professionals in the assessment of children who may have a brain tumour (Headsmart, v2 updated 2017)
- Blood transfusion (NICE NG24, reviewed 2020)
- Blood transfusion (NICE QS138, 2016)
- Cancer services for children and young people (NICE QS55, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management (NICE NG61, updated 2019)
- Guidelines for the management of children and young people (CYP) aged <19 years with Craniopharyngioma (CCLG, 2021)
- Haematological cancers (NICE QS150, 2017)
- Investigation and management of Idiopathic thickened pituitary stalk (iTPS) and/or idiopathic central diabetes insipidus (CDI) (CCLG 2021)
- Long term follow up of survivors of childhood cancer (SIGN 132, 2013)
- Melanoma: assessment and management (NICE NG14, updated 2022)
- Neutropenic sepsis: prevention and management in people with cancer (NICE CG151, reviewed 2020)
- Sickle cell disease (NICE QS58, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Skin cancer (NICE QS130, 2016)
- Suspected cancer (NICE QS124, updated 2017)
- Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (NICE NG12, updated, 2021)
Ophthalmology
- Retinopathy of prematurity: Screening (RCPCH, 2022)
- Retinopathy of prematurity: Treatment (RCOphth, 2022)
- Serious eye disorders (NICE QS180, 2019)
Orthopaedics
- Fractures (complex): assessment and management (NICE NG37, updated 2022)
- Fractures (non-complex): assessment and management (NICE NG38, reviewed, 2018)
- Spinal injury: assessment and initial management (NICE NG41, 2016)
Pain
- Chronic pain (primary and secondary) in over 16s: assessment of all chronic pain and management of chronic primary pain (NICE NG193, 2021)
Palliative care
- Practical guidance for the management of palliative care on neonatal units (Chelsea and Westminister Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
Personality disorder
- Antisocial personality disorder: prevention and management (NICE CG77, reviewed 2018)
- Borderline personality disorder: recognition and management (NICE CG78, reviewed 2018)
- Personality disorders: borderline and antisocial (NICE QS88, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
Pharmacology
- Cannabis-based medicinal products (NICE NG144, updated 2021)
- Medicines adherence: involving patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence (NICE CG76, reviewed 2019)
- Otitis media (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG91, 2018)
- Thyroid disease: assessment and management (NICE NG145, 2019)
- Medication safety: Best practice for effective paediatric ward rounds (Clinical Practice Guideline, RCPCH/NPPG Joint Standing Committee on Medicines, 2023)
Pollution
- Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health (NICE NG70, 2017)
- Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health (NICE QS181, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
Postnatal care
Pressure ulcers
- Pressure ulcers (NICE QS89, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Pressure ulcers: prevention and management (NICE CG179, reviewed 2018)
Psychosis
- Bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (NICE QS102, 2015)
- Coexisting severe mental illness (psychosis) and substance misuse: assessment and management in healthcare settings (NICE CG120, reviewed 2016)
- Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people: recognition and management (NICE CG155, updated 2016)
PTSD
Public health
- Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health (NICE NG70, 2017)
- Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health (NICE QS181, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions (NICE NG183, 2020)
- Community engagement: improving health and wellbeing (NICE QS148, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Early years - promoting health and wellbeing in under 5s (NICE QS128, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care (NICE CG139, updated 2017)
- Immunisations: reducing differences in uptake in under 19s (NICE PH21, updated 2017)
- Obesity: clinical assessment and management (NICE QS127, 2016)
- Obesity in children and young people: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes (NICE QS94, 2015) - RCPCH formal support
- Obesity prevention (NICE CG43, reviewed 2017)
- Obesity: identification, assessment and management (NICE CG189, reviewed 2018)
- Physical activity and the environment (NICE NG90, 2018)
- Physical activity: encouraging activity in the community (NICE QS183, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
- Preventing unintentional injury in under 15s (NICE QS107, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Social, emotional and mental wellbeing in primary and secondary education (NICE NG223, 2022)
- Vitamin D: supplement use in specific population groups (NICE PH56, updated 2017)
- Transition from children's to adults' services (NICE QS140, 2023)
Respiratory
- Asthma (NICE QS25, updated 2018) - RCPCH formal support
- Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (NICE NG80, updated 2021)
- British Guideline on the management of asthma (SIGN 158, updated 2019)
- Bronchiolitis in Children (NICE QS122, 2016) - RCPCH formal support
- Bronchiolitis in children: diagnosis and management (NICE NG9, updated 2021)
- BTS Quality Standard for Respiratory Management of Children with Neuromuscular Weakness (BTS, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (NICE NG191, 2024)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (NICE NG188, 2024)
- Cystic fibrosis (NICE QS168, 2018)
- Cystic fibrosis: diagnosis and management (NICE NG78, 2017)
- Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and obesity hypoventilation syndrome in over 16s (NICE NG202, 2021)
- Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm (NICE NG124, 2019)
- Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm (NICE QS193, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Tuberculosis (NICE NG33, updated 2019)
- Tuberculosis (NICE QS141, 2017)
Safeguarding
- Abusive head trauma and the eye in infancy (RCPCH-RCOphth, 2024) - RCPCH formal endorsement
- Child abuse and neglect (NICE NG76, 2017)
- Child abuse and neglect (NICE QS179, 2019)
- Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (NICE CG89, updated 2019)
- Looked-after children and young people (NICE PH28, reviewed 2017)
- Looked-after children and young people (NICE QS31, 2013) - RCPCH formal support
- Physical signs of child sexual abuse (RCPCH, 2015)
- Radiological investigation of suspected physical abuse in children (Royal College of Radiologists, 2017) - RCPCH formal endorsement
Sedation
Self-harm
- Self-harm (NICE QS34, 2013)
- Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing reoccurence (NICE NG225, 2022)
- Self-harm in over 8s: long-term management (NICE CG133, reviewed 2019)
- Suicide prevention (NICE QS189, 2019) - RCPCH formal support
Sepsis
- Neutropenic sepsis: prevention and management in people with cancer (NICE CG151, reviewed 2020)
- Sepsis (NICE QS161, 2017) - RCPCH formal support
- Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management (NICE NG51, updated 2024)
Sexual abuse
Sexualised behaviour
Sickle cell disease
- Sickle cell disease (NICE QS58, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
Smoking
- Tobacco: treating dependence (NICE QS207, 2022) - RCPCH formal support
Spasticity
Spinal injury
Stroke
- Stroke and transient ischaemic attack in over 16s: diagnosis and initial management (NICE NG128, 2019)
- Stroke in childhood: clinical guideline for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation (RCPCH, 2017)
Substance misuse
- Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse (NICE QS188, 2019)
- Coexisting severe mental illness (psychosis) and substance misuse: assessment and management in healthcare settings (NICE CG120, reviewed 2016)
- Drug misuse in over 16s: opioid detoxification (NICE CG52, reviewed 2019)
- Drug misuse in over 16s: psychosocial interventions (NICE CG51, reviewed 2016)
- Drug misuse prevention (NICE QS165, 2018)
Surgery
- Crohn’s disease: management (NICE NG129, updated 2019)
- Major trauma: assessment and initial management (NICE NG39, 2016)
- Major trauma: service delivery (NICE NG40, 2016)
- Pancreatitis (NICE NG104, updated 2020)
- Renal and ureteric stones: assessment and management (NICE NG118, 2019)
- Renal and ureteric stones (NICE QS195, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Renal replacement therapy and conservative management (NICE NG107, 2018)
- Surgical site infections: prevention and treatment (NICE NG125, 2020)
- Trauma (NICE QS166, 2018)
- Ulcerative colitis: management (NICE NG130, 2019)
Transition to adult services
- Transition from children’s to adults' services (NICE QS140, 2023)
- Transition from children’s to adults' services for young people using health or social care services (NICE NG43, 2016)
Transplantation
Tuberculosis
Urology
- Bedwetting in children and young people (NICE QS70, 2014) - RCPCH formal support
- Bedwetting in under 19s (NICE CG111, reviewed 2018)
- Renal and ureteric stones: assessment and management (NICE NG118, 2019)
- Renal and ureteric stones (NICE QS195, 2020) - RCPCH formal support
- Renal replacement therapy and conservative management (NICE NG107, 2018)
- Urinary incontinence in neurological disease: assessment and management (NICE CG148, reviewed 2019)
- Urinary tract infection (catheter-associated): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG113, 2018)
- Urinary tract infection (lower): antimicrobial prescribing (NICE NG109, 2018)
- Urinary tract infection (recurrent): anitmircobial prescribing (NICE NG112, 2018)
- Urinary tract infection in children and young people (NICE QS36, updated 2022) - RCPCH formal support
- Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management (NICE CG54, updated 2018)