Clinical guidelines and evidence reviews

Paediatricians and their colleagues regularly use clinical guidelines to manage the treatment of children's medical conditions. We develop clinical guidelines to high standards in line with our NICE accreditation.

Our process manual

Updated in April 2020 and accredited by NICE since 2006, Setting standards for development of clinical guidelines in paediatrics and child health describes our process to develop high standard clinical guidelines, including information on grading evidence, consensus methods, dissemination and implementation.

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See guideline directory

A full list of paediatric guidelines, which meet the standards for RCPCH endorsement, and which are published by NICE, SIGN, Royal Colleges or paediatric specialty groups.

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Develop a guideline for endorsement

We can help organisations and groups create high quality guidelines. Our methodology outlines the steps you'll need to take to get RCPCH endorsement.

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Participate in guideline development

RCPCH members are invited to join our consultation panel. See current and upcoming opportunities to comment on draft documents, represent us at meetings or join a guideline development group.

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Our clinical guidelines

Acute decrease in conscious level

Allergy care pathways

Cleft palate in the newborn - identification

Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants

Physical signs of child sexual abuse

Pre-procedure pregnancy checking for under-16s

Retinopathy of prematurity - screening and treatment

Stroke in childhood - diagnosis, management and rehabilitation

Child Protection Evidence

Our evidence-based resource for clinicians helps inform clinical practice, child protection procedures and professional and expert opinion in the legal system.

You can access this on our Child Protection Portal, which hosts our child protection and safeguarding guidelines and resources.

Evidence - Child Protection Portal